screw eye

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   a woodscrew having its shank bent into a ring

   Broaderwoodscrew

Questions about screw eye

What does screw eye mean?

screw eye means "a woodscrew having its shank bent into a ring".

Is screw eye a common word?

screw eye is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.