clouer

Du vivant de Chibás, Batista n’aurait pas pu faire son coup d’Etat parce que le fondateur de ce parti le surveillait de près et le clouait méthodiquement au pilori.
Had Chibás been alive, Batista would not have been able to stage his coup d'état, because the founder of the Cuban (Orthodox) People's Party kept a close eye on him and called him into question publicly and methodically.
La décoration des armes était très variée : ou bien, aux endroits prévus pour la décoration, les métaux étaient corrodés à l’acide ou bien, on clouait un fil d’or, d’argent ou de cuivre dans des saignées préparées.
The decoration of the weapons was very varied: or, at the places planned for decoration, metals were corroded with the acid or, one nailed a gold wire, of money or copper in prepared bleedings.
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