stove bolt
- noun
- Specialized
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tornillo de máquina
- So after a while, a pretty long while, he stopped going altogether and would run into his brother from time to time in the hardware store, as if by accident, and they would sit there a while, hanging their butts on the wide tables full of brass screws and stove bolts, with old Joe Carroll giving them the eye, as if they were scaring any customers out of there; then maybe they'd have lunch in the Collins Diner.
Examples
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The technician used a stove bolt to secure the metal panels together.
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She opened the toolbox, looking for stove bolts to fix the garden shed.
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To assemble the outdoor furniture, you will need several stove bolts and a socket wrench.
Synonyms
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A metal pin with a head that holds two parts together with a nut
A metal rod with a square or six-sided head and threads that you turn with a wrench
Surface Forms
Morphology
stove + bolt
The compound combines 'stove' + 'bolt' in a predictable noun–noun composition meaning a bolt associated with or used on a stove or stove-like metal assemblies. A B1 learner who knows both words would reasonably infer it denotes a kind of bolt for stoves (the technical specifics are specialized but the basic referent is transparently derived from the constituents).
Etymology
Stove bolt comes from bolts long used to hold metal stove parts together; imagine a small metal bolt fastening the plates of an old stove. So, a stove bolt today means a small bolt used to 'join' thin metal pieces.