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

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.

An ordinary ball used in bowling is used by plugging shut the holes and inserting a screw eye in one of the plugged holes.

From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William

Laying Out the Sail. hammered so it would close over the screw eye to keep it from slipping off.

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

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)

There is to be a screw eye attached to the foot of the couch.

From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)