coffin nail

The second day I was there I lighted a coffin-nail before one of the older officers.

Why, thankee, I've been aching for just a good old coffin-nail.

One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you can employ is a coffin-nail.

I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Later, I had a ring made of the coffin-nail, and I still wear it on the fore-finger of my right hand.