eyebolt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of eyebolt
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A lardcan poured with concrete with an eyebolt in the center.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Other Ebola experts have taken to calling this loop the eyebolt, after a bolt of the same name that can be found in a hardware store.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Blake looked, as they looked, at post and diagonal, eyebolt and bottom-chord, and across the gap at the swaying tip of the north cantilever.
From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
Under the starbord fore chains we find one of the chain-plate bolts started, in consequence of the timber and inside plank being rotten; and also a preventer eyebolt, from the same cause.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Matthew Flinders
A lug fitted into an offset in the larger eyebolt so that the spike could not twist.
From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Albert Manucy
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