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- noun Plural form of
eyebolt .
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Examples
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Then I noticed that the eyes of the huge eyebolts I had put through the sill beams were starting to pull away from their nice round shape!
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Then I noticed that the eyes of the huge eyebolts I had put through the sill beams were starting to pull away from their nice round shape!
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To fasten it to the ground and prevent the Antarctic storms from blowing it away I had strong eyebolts screwed into each end of the roof-ridge and the four corners of the roof; we carried six strong eyebolts, a metre long, to be rammed into the barrier; between these bolts and those on the hut, steel wires were to be stretched, which could be drawn quite tight.
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That was George Anderson's ascent, when he drilled eyebolts up the smooth side of the monolith, standing on each successive rod to place the next and then fixing lines to the summit so that others could follow.
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Bruce stood before a nude woman who was bound by thick leather straps to a pair of eyebolts that descended from the ceiling.
The Forever Game Jonathan Luckett 2007
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Bruce stood before a nude woman who was bound by thick leather straps to a pair of eyebolts that descended from the ceiling.
The Forever Game Jonathan Luckett 2007
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Her wrists and ankles were fastened with No. 2 picture wire to eyebolts in the floor of the cabinet.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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Ten eyebolts were found with some of the wood fixtures, and we had 10 victims.
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QUESTION: Colonel, can you clarify about the eyebolts configuration and what inference you might be drawing from that?
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Her wrists and ankles were fastened with No. 2 picture wire to eyebolts in the floor of the cabinet.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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