Definition of Key ring

1. Noun. A circular ring of metal for holding keys.

Generic synonyms: Hoop, Ring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Key Ring

key grips
key in
key into
key lime
key log
key logger
key loggers
key off
key out
key palm
key pattern
key performance indicator
key press
key presses
key ridge
key ring (current term)
key server
key set identifier
key set identifiers
key signature
key signatures
key to the midway
key vein
key word
keyable
keyage
keyaki
keyakis
keybinding
keybindings

Literary usage of Key ring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"A beautiful gi>14 key-ring, found near Bologna, may very possibly have been one of ... Another fine gold key-ring, with wards formed of nine Greek crosses, ..."

2. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1849)
"I prepare two metal rings, a and ¡, of the shapes shown in plan, fig. 1, and section, figs. 3 and 4. The one ring, a, which 1 call the key ring, ..."

3. The Car-builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith by Master Car-Builders' Association, Matthias Nace Forney, Arthur Mellen Wellington, Leander Garey, Calvin A. Smith (1895)
"Key-ring tire fastening Fig. 5342. A mode of securing the tire to the wheel, composed of two rings, one of U-section, and the other nearly rectangular. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"A beautiful gold key-ring, found near Bologna, may very possibly have been one* of ... Another fine gold key-ring, with wards formed of nine Greek crosses, ..."

5. Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Greek, Etruscan by Frederick Henry Marshall, Cecil Harcourt Smith (1907)
"... wearing a key'ring on the middle joint of the fourth finger of her left hand.4 The majority, however, of Roman key'rings are doubtless of a later date. ..."

6. Car Builders' Cyclopedia of American Practice by American Railway Association, Master Car Builders' Association, Mechanical Division, Association of American Railroads (1903)
"key ring TIRE FASTENING. A mode of securing the tire to the wheel, composed of two rings, one of U-section and the other nearly rectangular. ..."

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