wringbolt

English

Etymology

From wring +‎ bolt.

Noun

wringbolt (plural wringbolts)

  1. (nautical, historical) A bolt with a ring or eye, used by shipwrights to temporarily bend and secure the planks against the timbers until they are fixed in place.

Alternative forms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.