The mast has two side and one front stay, each fitted with a turnbuckle for tightening.
The bobstay has a loop at the nose and ends in a turnbuckle that fastens to the anchor plate under the cockpit, aft.
One end of the rubber is attached to the hook of the shaft C, and the other end to the hook or to the turnbuckle G, if it should be so equipped.
Wire, Locking=--A wire used to prevent a turnbuckle barrel or other fitting from losing its adjustment.
A turnbuckle is composed of a central barrel into each end of which is screwed an eye-bolt.
Wire is often bent over at its end in the form of a loop, in order to connect with a turnbuckle or fitting.
When the correct adjustment has been secured, the turnbuckle must be locked to prevent it from unscrewing.
For an expert rigger will always use the locking wire in such a way as to oppose the slightest tendency of the turnbuckle to unscrew.
Wire, Locking--A wire used to prevent a turnbuckle barrel or other fitting from losing its adjustment.
I called to Turnbuckle by name, and that in a voice so piteous that, in half a minute, he and his eldest son came tumbling out of the house in the greatest haste and wonder.
He did not trouble to turn his head; he even moved farther into the shed, to tighten a turnbuckle that was letting a cable sag a little.
His dull apathy of despair received something in the nature of a shock when he walked around the corner and almost butted into Bland, who had just finished tightening a turnbuckle and stepped back to walk around the end of a wing.
The morning following the placing of the concrete the hook rods were removed and turnbuckle hooks were put in their places, so that by tightening the turnbuckle the forms were carefully separated from the concrete.
By joining the ends of the turnbuckle and tightening it, a part of the strain of the line cable in question is transferred from the first to the second insulator of the series.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turnbuckle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
