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ˈring-bolt orig. Naut.
Also ringbolt, ring bolt.
[f. ring n.1 So Da. ringbolt, Sw. -bult, Du. -bout, G. -bolzen.]
A bolt with an eye at one end, to which a ring is attached.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 The canhookes, slings, and parbunkels, ports and ringbolts and hooks. 1644H. Manwayring Seaman's Dict. s.v. Bolt, Ring-bolts..are of infinite necessary use, both for the bringing to of the planckes and wales to the ship, as also the chiefe things whereunto we fasten the tackles and breetchings of the great Ordnance. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v., The ring-bolts are for several uses, but particularly to hook the tackles, by which the cannon of a ship are managed and secured. 1797S. James Narr. Voy. 35 He found two English gentlemen bound hand and foot to the ringbolts in the 'tween decks. 1834Marryat P. Simple (1863) 268 Our guns..bounced up to the beams overhead, tearing away their ringbolts. 1840Crockett Almanac 1841 19 A ring bolt in the barn floor. 1888W. B. Churchward Blackbirding 141, I had just time to throw myself flat on the deck, and hold on to a ringbolt. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar iv. 90 Firm as a figure held by ringbolts. 1968E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xv. 215 He just grabbed the sonofabitch by the scruff o' the neck and lifted him about two feet offa the floor—and, by God, by the time he was through with him, he brought him to the ringbolt and don't you think he didn't. 1974R. Adams Shardik xxvi. 210 The tie-bars..were secured by chains to ring-bolts set..in the walls and floor. |