hook and eye
Example Sentences
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Did you feel a thrill of pleasure when the last hook and eye was fastened and you surveyed yourself in the longest mirror in the house?
From Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
Attach a small hook and eye on each end and fasten two leather handles to the crosspieces.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
He entered the sitting-room, and there sat his wife by the oblong center-table, sewing a hook and eye on one of Lillian, second's, petticoats.
From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore
"Still have to use a hook and eye at the bottom of the coat—blouse," he corrected himself.
From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
The ends of the belt should be slightly tapered, and the hook and eye screwed firmly home.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
