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Definition of Hook and eye
1. Noun. A kind of fastener used on clothing.
Definition of Hook and eye
1. Noun. A matched hook and an eye (gloss loop into which the hook can fit), used for fastening. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hook And Eye
Literary usage of Hook and eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Torrington, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1737, with by Samuel Orcutt (1878)
"After the knitting company had run the mill a few years, it stood idle until it
was sold to the Waterbury Hook and Eye Company. ..."
2. Sanitary Engineering: A Guide to the Construction of Works of Sewerage and by Baldwin Latham (1878)
"Kods with hook and eye Messrs. Dickson and Sons. ... These rods have a hook-and-eye
joint; the rods have each a hook at one end and an eye at the other. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1879)
"These are the hook-and-eye makers and the shoemakers. With the former the contest
is evident. For ladies' dresses, for uniforms, for the collars of cloaks, ..."
4. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1900)
"AN improved hook and eye for use on ships' i doors and alley-doors, known as
Taylor's patent noiseless hook and eye, is shown in the accompanying diagram. ..."
5. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"It also gives aSy rise to a "delta-shaped" type (c) by prolonging the free end
of the hook-and-eye fastening to form a large secondary hook which alone ..."
6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A modification of the Hook and Eye hinge with the shank of the eye formed into
... Hook and Eye Hinge. A primitive form of hinge consisting of an eye worked ..."
7. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1907)
"I can make a machine to make the hook and eye, and if I can get a patent on them
I should like to have you handle them for me, or perhaps we can fix it in ..."
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