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- noun Plural form of
ringbolt .
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Examples
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Further along the curved wall, Jack saw a collection of more prisoners, all standing wearily against the ceramic wall, manacled to it by sturdy ringbolts:
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Further along the curved wall, Jack saw a collection of more prisoners, all standing wearily against the ceramic wall, manacled to it by sturdy ringbolts:
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Further along the curved wall, Jack saw a collection of more prisoners, all standing wearily against the ceramic wall, manacled to it by sturdy ringbolts:
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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With a keen cutting-spade, Queequeg lances the gums; then the jaw is lashed down to ringbolts, and a tackle being rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild woodlands.
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Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called them ringbolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to them.
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Taita swung open the heavy metal door to reveal the four small cases that were tied down to ringbolts in the wagon bed.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Crewmen swarmed around, undoing the chains and fastening them down to ringbolts set in the deck; others were already casting off the mooring cables and running a line to the schooner's stern.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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At regular intervals they came to curved stone pylons with sunken ringbolts; perhaps once oxen or stage-horses had tethered there.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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I said innocently, as I stood up in the bows of the wherry and hung on by a boathook to one of the ringbolts in the side of the old three-decker that towered up above our heads, waiting to help in
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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By Captain Applegarth's directions, a piece of heavy tarpaulin was lashed over the broken skylight, securing the ends to ringbolts in the deck; but hardly had the covering been made fast ere we could see the chief engineer picking his way towards us, struggling through the water that still lay a foot deep in the waist and looking as pale as death.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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