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  • noun Plural form of eyebar.

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Examples

  • So take your eyebars off -- click play for "Disintegration Man" and enjoy a song/video that 'Occupies' the topical zeitgeist like no other.

    Scott Mehno: Rebecca Pidgeon's "Disintegration Man" Is a True Who Is It Song Scott Mehno 2011

  • Each of them had been cast with two parallel rows of nine oblong apertures into which eighteen of the iron eyebars were placed, set perfectly erect, making thereby two identical upright rows of nine bars each.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • Here again, as at the aqueduct, he had fixed his cables to a chain of iron eyebars buried in masonry anchorages.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • Kloman had a new way of making steel eyebars and Paine had gone to Pittsburgh to study the process.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • He had also devised a novel technique for anchoring the cables, attaching them to great chains of iron eyebars embedded in masonry, a plan not used in any prior suspension bridge and the one he would use on every bridge he built thereafter.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • He shook his head doubtfully at the bridge-service train, which was backing out along the track before him with a load of eyebars and girders.

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • So take your eyebars off -- click play for "Disintegration Man" and enjoy a song/video that 'Occupies' the topical zeitgeist like no other.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Scott Mehno 2011

  • Since then eyebars are regularly checked every three months, and there have been small nicks discovered in the metal that could be a precursor to cracking, they want a plan in place for these dampers to be installed.

    CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports 2010

  • Engineers also say the eastern span's multitude of steel-to-steel connections - including the 1,860 eyebars, the narrow steel latticework supports and other steel members - that make up the cantilever structure are outdated and aging.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2009

  • When the head of the company appeared before Low’s committee to explain himself, he said the fault lay not with his firm but with the Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, suppliers of the steel blooms Edge Moor rolled into eyebars and other pieces for the bridge.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

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