screw eye

American  

noun

1. a screw having a ring-shaped head.

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screw eye British  

noun

1. a wood screw with its shank bent into a ring

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Etymology

Origin of screw eye

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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screw eye

Stretching the Guy Lines. cord from the screw eye on one side to the point where the bolt was to be inserted, and traced its direction on the crosspiece.

From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell)

Drill a hole through the wood with each drill you have and place a screw eye in one end to be used as a hanger.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

By still another method, an elastic is passed through the screw eye in the stock and over the finger piece of the trigger, thus tending continually to draw it back and spring the hammer.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

The other extremities of the four poles should be supplied, each with a large screw eye.

From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by Gibson, William Hamilton

An electric current passing through the wires of the vertical bolt will therefore lift the head of the horizontal bolt, which will drop back on to the screw eye when the circuit is broken.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)