(usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener |
paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together | horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits |
a short U-shaped wire nail | a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard |
material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing | |
a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn | |