eyeboltn.
/ˈʌɪbəʊlt/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌboʊlt/ A bolt or bar having an eye at one end, to receive a hook, ring, etc. Cf. eyebar n. 1b.
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round bolt1582
ringbolt1599
pikebolt1622
rag bolt1625
set-bolt1627
clinch-bolta1642
eyebolt1649
clinch1659
screw-bolt1690
king bolt1740
wrain-bolt1750
wraining-bolt1769
toggle-bolt1794
strap-bolt1795
wring-bolt1815
through-bolt1821
truss-bolt1825
slip-stopper1831
stud bolt1838
anchor bolt1839
king rod1843
joint bolt1844
spade-bolt1850
shackle-bolt1852
roof bolt1853
set-stud1855
coach bolt1869
truss-rod1873
fox-bolt1874
garnish-bolt1874
fang-bolt1876
stud1878
U bolta1884
rock bolt1887
hook bolt1899
tower bolt1911
explosive bolt1948
1649 Shipbuilding Contract 24 Dec. (National Maritime Mus. SPB/8) To fitt & drive all Ring bolts, Eye Bolts, Rings and Staples.
1769 Trinity-House Bks.: Tinmouth Low-lights 21 June in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 586 The stones may be laid hold of by eye-bolts fixed in holes bored with a jumper.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 116 They hook the fixed blocks to the eye-bolts.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 7/3 The cage was being lowered..when the eye-bolt attaching it to the winding rope broke.
1933 Mariner's Mirror 19 facing p. 270 (caption) The cable was..lashed by alternate links to eye-bolts along the ship's side.
2010 K. Slaughter Broken (2011) 42 A bike chain attached the back wheel to an eyebolt screwed into the concrete drive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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