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The line may still pass through the eye of the hook, but primarily fastens to the shaft. Hooks tied with a snell knot provide an even, straight-line pull to the fish. It is a very secure knot, but because it is easily tied using only the near end as the working end, it is used to attach a hook only to a leader, rather than directly to the main ...
Sinsky's hook intraocular lens dialler: angulated round hook with a handle used in insertion of an intraocular lens: Strabismus hook: muscle hook or squint hook; sharp tip or knobbed tip; used in squint surgery Foreign body spud and needle: Spud to remove superficial and needle for the deep foreign bodies in the eye Elliot's trephine with handle
Hook-and-eye fasteners have been common for centuries, but what was new about hook-and-loop fasteners was the miniaturisation of the hooks and eyes. Shrinking the hooks led to the two other important differences. Firstly, instead of a single-file line of hooks, hook-and-loop fasteners have a two-dimensional surface. [7] This was needed, because ...
A similar hook and eye for brassieres was patented in 1902 by the M.E. Company. [8] The fasteners were eventually manufactured in the form of hook-and-eye tape, consisting of two tapes, one equipped with hooks and the other equipped with eyelets so that the two tapes could be "zipped" together side by side.
Long-shanked screw eyes are termed 'vine eyes' and are used to attach support wires to wooden fence posts when growing soft fruit or grape vines, the plants then being tied to the wires. Lag screws. Wire eye lags (also called screw thread eye bolts, eye screws, or turned/bent eye lags) have a wood screw thread for use in wood or lag anchors.
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Any hitch that is made on an eye loop, i.e., on a becket. Blackwall hitch: A temporary means of attaching a rope to a hook. Blake's hitch: A friction hitch commonly used by arborists and tree climbers as an ascending knot. Boom hitch: A rather robust and secure method of attaching a line, or rope to a fixed object like a pipe, post, or sail boom