Definition of nailer:

part of speech: noun

One whose trade is to make nails.

Usage examples:

• " Tears all gone, Ross, tragedy played out, and the little woman who keeps house for you is herself again, and has been as busy as a nailer John Hay, et al. in "Not Pretty, But Precious".

• Lady Agatha is a nailer William Magnay in "A Poached Peerage".

• " Yes, he's a bit of a nailer Peckover agreed feelingly. William Magnay in "A Poached Peerage".

• Then Linkin, ses he, " Majer, you've worked like a nailer on these figers, an it's an awful dry an tough subjec. Seba Smith in "Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia".