Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bolt having a ring fitted through its eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ships, a metallic bolt with an eye to which is fitted a ring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
eyebolt that has aring through theeye .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a length of sunbleached rope tied to a ringbolt set in one corner of the cement.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
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Koyanagi had struck his hip on a ringbolt in the rush to abandon ship.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Koyanagi had struck his hip on a ringbolt in the rush to abandon ship.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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Jordas put up at a quiet old inn, and had Saracen chained strongly to a ringbolt in the stable; then he set off afoot to see
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Then they lifted the shaft and fastened it to the ringbolt in the footplate.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Still more significantly, its angle, here where it was bent through a huge ringbolt, slanted noticeably off the vertical.
Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996
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The oars were at once tossed, while the bowman gripped a projecting ringbolt in the side of the hulk with his boathook to hold on by; and the other cadets and myself, jumping out on to the ladderway, made our way nimbly enough up to the deck of the mastless _Blake_, passing over her by a gangway to the _Candahar_ that lay on her further side.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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It took three of them to haul the creature aboard, where it was fastened to a ringbolt on deck for the first stage of its journey to the Zoo.
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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For my part, as soon as I had let the foresail run, I threw myself flat on deck, with my feet against the narrow gunwale of the bow, and with my hands grasping a ringbolt near the foot of the foremast.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Before you could say "Jack Robinson," the whip was down and the purchase in the top; then, the standing part of the tackle was made fast to the yard pendant and the spar swayed up, as the men walked away with the fall, which was rove through a snatchblock hooked on to a ringbolt fixed in the deck and led to the capstan.
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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