great toe-nail

See also: great toe nail, great-toe nail, and great toenail

English

Noun

great toe-nail (plural great toe-nails)

  1. Alternative form of great toenail.
    • 1774 September 5, William Wilson, “Forty Shillings Reward”, in The Pennsylvania Gazette. […], number 2385, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Hall and Sellers, […], published 7 September 1774, →OCLC, page [3], column 3:
      RUN away, laſt night, from the ſubſcriber, […] an Iriſh ſervant man, […] it is ſuppoſed his proper name is John Woods; […] he […] has his great toe-nail lately broke off on the right foot; […]
    • 1799 April 7, “Originals”, in The Observer, number 380, London: […] John Desmond, […] Joseph Watson, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page [2], column 4:
      He [William Penn] had scarcely got over the first mile (which he performed in six minutes and an half) when he struck his foot so violent a blow against a sharp-pointed stone, that his great toe-nail was entirely torn off, and the flesh otherwise dreadfully lacerated; […]
    • 1819, James Caulfield, “John Hardman”, in Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II. […], volume I, London: […] H. R. Young, […] and T. H. Whitely, […], →OCLC, page 113:
      Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, the father of the parliamentary general, died of a mortification in his foot, in consequence of the unskilfulness of an operator cutting his great toe-nail.
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