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.
    • 1743 [1739], Laurence Heister, anonymous translator, “The Method of Cutting Out the Nail of the Great-toe, when It Turns into the Flesh”, in A General System of Surgery […], London: […] W. Innys […] C. Davis […], →OCLC, part II (Of Operations), section VI (Concerning Disorders Incident to the Upper and Lower Extremities, Particularly to the Hands and Feet), page 287:
      THE Great-toe Nail ſometimes turns too much in on one Side, ſo as to enter the Fleſh, and cauſe violent Pain and Inflammation to ſuch a degree, that the Patient cannot walk.
      [original: Accidere quam ſaepiſſime ſolet, un unguis in pollice pedis juſto altius in uno alterove latere praeter naturam in ſubjectam carnem ſeſe infigat, itaque graves partis illius dolores cum inflammatione concitet, ut mirificam deambulandi difficultatem homines ſentiant.]
    • 1949 April 12, Mrs. B. J. Barry, quotee, “Prof. Munieralli Shah, Bachelor of Science”, in Forbes Advocate, volume 38, number 29, Forbes, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
      I kept going to doctors, then later my great-toe nails had ingrown, the toe broke-out.
    • 1955 October 18, “Collective Collectors”, in Salisbury Evening Post, final edition, volume 182, number 48, Salisbury, N.C., →OCLC, page 4, column 1:
      A “collector’s item” may be the left great-toe nail from the hanged corpse of a slave lynched for a rape which his master committed; […]
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