nail hole
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- noun
- /neɪl hoʊl/
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agujero de clavo
- To repair the wall, I applied spackle to all the nail holes and sanded it down once it dried.
- fill nail holes
- nail holes in the wall
- small nail holes
Examples
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Before painting, make sure to fill any nail holes in the wall for a smooth finish.
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See the nail holes here, here and here.
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It's the baseboard painting project that almost got all the nail holes covered.
Blog text (29) -
Before painting I filled the nail holes and some wood defects and let it to dry.
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Keep in mind that these nail holes will be visible, so please don't do it when building fine furniture.
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We've repaired the nail holes and replaced the tassels.
Fiction book (1999) -
The bathroom should have been wallpapered and updated by now; the nail holes in her walls needed to be spackled, and the rest of the apartment could use some touch-up painting as well.
Fiction book (1999) -
Framing the inscription, Kendall could see small nail holes that once held a thin sheet of gold pressed into the inscription.
Academic text (2002) -
After removing the pictures, there were several small nail holes left in the drywall.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a hole in a surface left after a nail has been removed' is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents 'nail' and 'hole' (a hole made by or associated with a nail). This literal noun+noun combination is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and thus would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun nail hole comes from the simple picture of a nail being pulled out and the small hole left in wood or a wall. So, nail hole means 'a hole left after a nail has been removed'.