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nailed up

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In communications, it refers to a permanent connection rather than one that is dynamically created and released. For example, a leased, private, point-to-point line is a nailed-up connection.


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Now, as this room wanted the conveniency of a closet, Molly had, to supply that defect, nailed up an old rug against the rafters of the house, which enclosed a little hole where her best apparel, such as the remains of that sack which we have formerly mentioned, some caps, and other things with which she had lately provided herself, were hung up and secured from the dust.
" Here he had nailed up shelves for his books, built himself a box-sofa out of boards and a mattress, laid out his papers on a kitchen-table, hung on the rough plaster wall an engraving of Abraham Lincoln and a calendar with "Thoughts from the Poets," and tried, with these meagre properties, to produce some likeness to the study of a "minister" who had been kind to him and lent him books when he was at Worcester.
There they found that the gardener, groom and cook had added to his many professions that of an undertaker, and had nailed up his noble master in a coffin.
 
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