Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A screw having a loop or eye for its head: a form much used to furnish a means of fastening, as by a hook, a cord, etc.
- noun A long screw with a handle, used in theaters by stage-carpenters in securing scenes.
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Examples
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About 3/4 in. from H is placed X, which is a screw-eye binding-post.
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The outside end of 2 is joined to X; the outside end, 7, of the other coil, 6, is carried up under or around the screw-eye, S I, and then its bare end reaches out and gently scrapes against the top of the shaft, 8.
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The thread on such a screw-eye will be about 1/2 in. long.
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L is kept up against V by the rubber-band, J, one end of which passes around the end of L; to the other end of J is a thread, which is tied around a screw-eye, K.
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Do not turn the screw-eye too hard, or you will spoil the thread made in the wood.
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For light horns a brass screw-eye at the top of shield is used to hang them, but heavy moose and elk antlers require an iron plate in back of shield, let in flush across the top of a perpendicular groove to catch a hook or head of a heavy nail in the wall.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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If not put in high enough, it causes a rather too acute angle where the screw-eye is inserted and the limb is likely to break.
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Put a small screw-eye on top of the frame, thus allowing it to hang perfectly flat against the wall.
Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use Arthur L. Fowler
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Locating up the main limbs what might be called the center of effort, or where the main pull would be when loaded with fruit, put in a good stout screw-eye in every main limb, eyes all pointing to the center of the tree, and then wire them all to the harness ring in the middle of the tree.
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A screw-eye and bur are used to hold C to the upright, U.
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