ringbolt

English

Alternative forms

ring bolt
ring-bolt

Etymology

ring +‎ bolt

Noun

ringbolt (plural ringbolts)

an eyebolt with a captive ring passing through it
- 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “Chapter XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
  The anchors and ring-bolts, and other iron work, were blackened with coal-tar

Translations

an eyebolt that has a ring through the eye

Bulgarian: болт с пръстен (bolt s prǎsten)
Irish: bolta fáinne m
Italian: golfare (it) m

References

ringbolt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

trobling

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