eye-bolts

True, the curve steepened to nearly sixty degrees above them, but a comparatively unbroken line of eye-bolts, six feet apart, awaited the lads.

DUTCH COURAGE 2010

One day, a couple of clear-headed mountaineers had proceeded to insert iron eye-bolts into holes which they drilled into the rock every few feet apart.

DUTCH COURAGE 2010

True, most of the eye-bolts, twisted and bent, remained.

DUTCH COURAGE 2010

But if it's a concrete driveway, you'd probably have to cut a hole in it first, then set your eye-bolts or rings in fresh concrete.

Killer Angels Editorial Anonymous 2010

Placement would be another issue: either put those eye-bolts on the edge of the driveway, or flag them so you don't drive over them that's got to be hard even on truck tires.

Killer Angels Editorial Anonymous 2010

Thick chains ran from his wrists through eye-bolts in the floor to his ankles, crossing under the heavy wooden chair on which he sat; he could shift a little in his seat, but that was all.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Drills twisted into her timbers, followed by heavy eye-bolts.

Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

Others had given it no thought, had assisted in installing the chains and eye-bolts as if they were just another kind of netting to restrain cargo.

Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

Then, with violent manual labour, the mortar was swung over and finally heaved up into position, and the gunner drove the keys through the eye-bolts.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

They were lifted off the molding bed by tackle by the locomotive crane to these eye-bolts and blocked up to permit the adjustment of the sling.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette