zipper

→ Cebuano: siper

→ Esperanto: zipo

→ French: zipper

→ Japanese: ジッパー (jippā)

→ Korean: 지퍼 (jipeo)

→ Portuguese: zíper

→ Spanish: zíper

→ Tagalog: siper

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.


pin

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: pins

→ Polish: pin

→ Spanish: pin

→ Swahili: pini

→ Swedish: pin, pins

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

cog

With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.

speld

needle without an eye, used for fastening

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.


clutch

en-verb

clutch (third-person singular simple present clutches, present participle clutching, simple past and past participle clutched)

clutches (present singular third-person)
clutching (participle present)
clutched (participle past)
clutched (past)

From Middle English clucchen, clicchen, cluchen, clechen, cleken, from Old English clyċċan (“to clutch, clench”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *klukjaną, from Proto-Germanic *klu- (“to ball up, conglomerate, amass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up; lump, mass”).
Cognate with Swedish klyka (“clamp, fork, branch”). The noun is from Middle English cleche, cloche, cloke ("claw, talon, hand"; compare Scots cleuk, cluke, cluik (“claw, talon”)), of uncertain origin, with the form probably assimilated to the verb.
Alternative etymology derives Old English clyċċan from Proto-Germanic *klēk- (“claw, hand”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēk-, *ǵlēḱ- (“claw, hand; to clutch, snatch”). If so, then cognate with Irish glac (“hand”).

gloss

She clutched her purse tightly and walked nervously into the building.

Not that I haue the power to clutch my hand,

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 8, column 1:


clutch

→ Dutch: kluts (“clutch”)

The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.

enbrage

The pedal in a car that disengages power transmission

cloche

Caribbean Islands, Colombian Atlantic Coast

Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)


nut

Did you like them boys? I goes.
Nut. She shook her hair.
Neither?
Nut. Right townies.

1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 26:


bolt

→ Irish: bolta

→ Japanese: ボルト (boruto)

→ Maltese: bolt

desctree

→ Russian: болт (bolt)
→ Azerbaijani: bolt
→ Ingrian: boltta

→ Scottish Gaelic: bolta

From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.

der

A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.


Velcro

Blend of French velours (“velvet”) + French crochet (“hook”)

blend

A fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with minute fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can be pulled apart.


frogging

en-noun

frogging (countable and uncountable, plural froggings)

A set of decorative looped fastener on a garment, especially on a military uniform.


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]

1844, Richard Sainthill, An Olla Podrida: Or, Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian, and Literary:

1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,
My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart.

1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944,
Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.

"I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A most respectable old Johnnie, don't you know. Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.

1925, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves Takes Charge”, in Carry On, Jeeves, Arrow Books, published 2008, page 19:

A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.

малка мотика

spade-like tool used for digging out weeds


spud

en-verb

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

spuds (present singular third-person)
spudding (participle present)
spudded (participle past)
spudded (past)

A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)

1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46:

When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2″ manila rope.

1999, Steve Devereux, Drilling for Oil & Gas: A Nontechnical Guide, page 86:

Spudding is the process of lifting and dropping the pile constantly until the obstruction is broken into pieces. Obviously, spudding cannot be done with lighter piles (timber or pipe piles). Concrete piles and steel H-piles are good candidates for spudding.

2008, Ruwan Rajapakse, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, page 367:

Prepayments of drilling expenses are deductible by tax-shelter investors only if the well is “spudded” within 90 days after the close of the taxable year in which the prepayment was made, and the deduction is limited to the original amount of the investment.

2008, J. K. Lasser, J.K. Lasser′s Your Income Tax: 2009, Professional, Edition, page 238:

(drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.


spud

A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.


hasp

From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”).

cog

A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.


popper

en-noun

popper (countable and uncountable, plural poppers)

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop + -er (suffix forming agent noun).
(capsule of amyl nitrite): From the popping sound when the capsule is broken open.

Ryan knelt up in bed with his knees against Kick's side. "You okay?" Ryan asked. / "Too much popper," he said. “Maybe I have jet lag.

2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340:

Maybe he has some popper—that's a gay drug, right? Nicholas Nugent should at least have some popper . . . Art, leaning into the gaggle. Nicholas Nugent, shaking his pretty head. No popper. Do you think it's possible to popper yourself gay?

2019, Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs, page 38:


brad

Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.

(US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.


latch

From Middle English latche, lacche (“a latch; a trap”), from lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.

inh

The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.

1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 4, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.

(electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.


clip

→ Japanese: クリップ (kurippu)

→ Portuguese: clipe

From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels

A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

The car skidded off the road and clipped a lamppost.

To hit or strike, especially in passing.


clip

en-noun

clip (countable and uncountable, plural clips)

topenga pāpāho)

from a media presentation e.g. a video or audio clip

Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:

A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).


klimp

Originally a trademark, perhaps influenced by clamp and clip.

A metal clip or clamp used to fasten the walls of a crate together during shipment


paper clip

A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.

万字夹

maan⁶ zi⁶ gaap³⁻², maan⁶ zi⁶ gep⁶⁻², maan⁶ zi⁶ gip⁶⁻²


cufflink

Every gentleman needs at least one pair of cufflinks.

A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.

كَبَكْ

button used to hold a sleeve cuff together


drawing pin

A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc.


zip fastener

A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, comprised of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.


fastener

→ Japanese: ファスナー (fasunā)

Mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, clasps, bolts and the like.


rivet

From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.
The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.

der

A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

(figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.

over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse

1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:

In 1579 it is mentioned that Almain rivets are now out of use, and in lieu of them a corselett shall be found. The rivets varied in cost; in 1509 they were to be had for 8s., in 1512 they were imported at 16s., and again in 1513 […]

1903, The Archaeological Journal, page 105:

(obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.


rivet

en-verb

rivet (third-person singular simple present rivets, present participle riveting or rivetting, simple past and past participle riveted or rivetted)

rivets (present singular third-person)
riveting (participle present)
rivetting (participle present)
riveted (participle past)
riveted (past)
rivetted (participle past)
rivetted (past)

(transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

зани́твам

to attach or fasten parts by using rivets


clasp

Noun dated in the 13th century AD and verb dated in the late 14th century AD; from claspe, possible modification of clapse, which is from Old English clyppan (“to grasp”). Related to English enclasp (“embrace, hold tightly in one's arms”).

cog

I always have a hard time working the clasp on this necklace!

A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.


clasp

en-verb

clasp (third-person singular simple present clasps, present participle clasping, simple past and past participle clasped)

clasps (present singular third-person)
clasping (participle present)
clasped (participle past)
clasped (past)

They clasped hands and parted as friends.

And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.

1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.


clamp

From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.
Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.

cog

(medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.


hairpin

→ Japanese: ヘアピン

From hair + pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.

发夹

fàjiā (chiefly Taiwan), fǎjiā (chiefly China)

(biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.

(music) An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.


buckle

The noun is derived from Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for fastening; ornamental clasp; boss of a shield; a shield, buckler; (figurative) means of defence”) [and other forms], from Old French boucle, bocle (“spiked metal ring for fastening; boss of a shield; a shield”) [and other forms], from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet; boss of a shield”) (from bucca (“soft part of the cheek”); further etymology uncertain, possibly of Celtic origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow; to inflate; to swell”)) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Noun sense 2 (“great conflict or struggle”) is probably derived from verb sense 1.2.1 (“to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work”).
The verb is derived from Middle English bokelen, bukelen (“to fasten (something) with a buckle or clasp; to fasten, make fast; to wrap; to arch the body”) [and other forms], from bokel (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
In verb sense 1.2.1, the sense “to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work” was derived from the now obsolete sense “to equip (oneself) for a battle, etc.”, and originally alluded to armour being buckled on to the body.

nb...

bocle, bocul, bocule, bocull, boculle, bogil, bogyll, bokell, bokle, bokull, bokyll, bokylle, boucle, bukel, bukkel, bukle, bukyll, bukylle

إِبْزِيم

He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now. […] Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Ahab and the Carpenter”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 522–523:

A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.

(by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.

solki

some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together


staple

From Middle English stapel (“staple, pillar, post”), from Old English stapol (“post, pillar”), from Proto-West Germanic *stapul, from Proto-Germanic *stapulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“post, stem”).
See also Old English steppan (“to step”) and Old French estaple (“post”). Consider also stapes (“stirrup”), from Latin. Doublet of étape and etymology 1.

krammetjie

wire fastener used to secure stacks of paper

The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.

Esther's wrists were firmly tied, and the twisted rope was fastened to a strong staple in a heavy wooden joist above, near the fire-place. Here she stood, on a bench, her arms tightly drawn over her breast. Her back and shoulders were bare to the waist.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

A U-shaped metal fastener, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.


thumbtack

Coordinate term: pushpin

You say that I'm broke my nigga, how is that?
Bitch I'm stickin to this paper like a thumbtack

2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB (lyrics and music), “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I, 1:20–1:27:

(Canada, US) A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.


clothes peg

(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.

مِشْبَك مَلَابِس

an object used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline


clothespin

At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

(US, Canada) A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.


Allen screw

From Allen, the name of Allen Manufacturing Company, and screw.

A screw whose head has a hexagonal socket.


Allen bolt

From Allen, the name of Allen Manufacturing Company, and bolt.

A bolt whose head has a hexagonal socket.


fastening

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch's preliminary examination of the site of a cement train derailment at Sheffield station on November 11 found that a series of rail fastenings had broken, some before the accident, causing the tracks to spread under the train.

2020 December 16, “Network News: Broken fastenings caused derailment”, in Rail, page 13:

A hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together; fastener.


barrette

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.

Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like pirate treasure.

1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 30:

A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.

agulla de clenxa

clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip


lug nut

A strong nut used to attach a wheel to an axle of a motor car.


hobnail

en-verb

hobnail (third-person singular simple present hobnails, present participle hobnailing, simple past and past participle hobnailed)

hobnails (present singular third-person)
hobnailing (participle present)
hobnailed (participle past)
hobnailed (past)

The Conversation (website)
William Shakespeare

From hob + nail. The oldest attestation is in William Shakespeare, but he likely did not coin the term.

Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush.

(transitive, archaic) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.


cotter pin

(US) A split pin, the ends of which project through an object being fastened and are bent back to hold it in place.


breastpin

Mark on that nose the colour left by too copious port and viands; to which the profuse cravat with exorbitant breastpin, and the fixed, forward, and as it were menacing glance of the eyes correspond.

1843, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 17, in Past and Present:

A sprig of white flowers was in her light wavy hair, and another fastened by her breastpin drooped over her bosom.

1883, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 5, in His Sombre Rivals:

An ornamental pin attached to clothing in a person's upper chest area; a brooch.


eyebolt

From eye + bolt. Compare Icelandic augabolti (“ringbolt”).

A bolt with a looped head or an opening in the head.


binder clip

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-binder clip.wav

A simple device for binding a few to many sheets of paper, leaving the sheets intact; a strip of spring steel bent into the shape of an isosceles triangle with loops at the apex.


pushpin

en-noun

pushpin (countable and uncountable, plural pushpins)

My invention relates to improvements in what are termed “push-pins,” said pins being adapted to support one article upon another and being particularly employed for holding photographic films stretched upon a surface, such as a board, for drying and the like.

[1900 July 24, Edwin Moore, Push-Pin, US Patent 654319:

An illustration showed a pair of scissors slicing off the leg of a doll […] stuck with pushpins.

2009 January 28, “Mexicans turning to black magic in hopes of defeating U.S.”, in Toronto Star:

(countable) A small pin with a head made for gripping with the fingers, to be pushed into a bulletin board so as to pin papers to it; especially, such a pin with a cylindrical head.

(archaic, uncountable) An old children's game where pins are placed on a table and each player tries to push his pin so as to cross the other's.


pushpin

en-verb

pushpin (third-person singular simple present pushpins, present participle pushpinning, simple past and past participle pushpinned)

pushpins (present singular third-person)
pushpinning (participle present)
pushpinned (participle past)
pushpinned (past)

(transitive) To fasten with a thumbtack.


hook and eye

A matched hook and an eye (loop into which the hook can fit), used for fastening.

телено копче

a matched hook and an eye, used for fastening


hairslide

A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.


hairgrip

Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.

1981, Gillian Allnutt, Spitting the Pips Out, page 51:

Then she leant over towards the bedside table, selected a hairgrip from amongst the crusted trio littered beside her hairbrush, and tenderly inserted the looped end into her right ear, turning it delicately to dredge for wax.

1985, Patricia Ferguson, Family myths and legends, page 8:

“The hairgrip was in this envelope", Ulrika Stenholm said, passing him another small plastic bag containing a white envelope.

2016, Leif G. W. Persson, The Dying Detective, page 111:

A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.


tie clip

A clip used to fasten the front and back parts of a tie.


ringbolt

The anchors and ring-bolts, and other iron work, were blackened with coal-tar

1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:

an eyebolt with a captive ring passing through it

болт с пръстен

an eyebolt that has a ring through the eye


sleeve-link

The oval seal is undoubtedly a plain sleeve-link—what else is of such a shape?

1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge”, in His Last Bow:


snap fastener

a pair of male/female interlocking disks used to fasten a piece of clothing in place of buttons


bobby pin

From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.

[H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.


bulldog clip

Possibly a reference to the tenacity of a bulldog’s bite. Regarding sense 1 (“binder clip with rigid handles”), Bulldog was originally a trademark registered to Brandsley Limited in the United Kingdom in 1944.

We need to remind children that magnetic compasses will be deflected from the north reading if near metal – for example a car, a metal bulldog clip on a clipboard, or a metal bar under a table.

1996, Marcia Foley, Jan Janikoun, The Really Practical Guide to Primary Geography (Really Practical Guides), 2nd edition, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes, published 2002, →ISBN, page 83:

If weight carriers are not available use a strong bulldog clip with a pot attached to it by thread going through the hole. Clip this to the sheet of paper and gradually add weights to the pot. The bulldog clip sometimes slips off the paper, so wrap the end of the paper around a pencil and the bulldog clip will grip this.

2000, “The Properties of Materials and Their Everyday Uses”, in Colin Osborne, Maria Pack, editors, compiled by Jan Rees, That’s Chemistry!: A Resource for Primary School Teachers about Materials and Their Properties, London: Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, part A (Grouping and Classifying Materials), page 15:

A twist of ribbon, a wine cork, a bunch of diplomats' calling cards held together with a bulldog clip.

2001, John le Carré [pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], The Constant Gardener, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2005, →ISBN, page 57:

Sketching galaxies and nebulae at the eyepiece, in low light levels, is no easy matter. A small torch can be used but that leaves one less hand free, so it's quite common to use a stiff plywood or plastic board to fasten the paper and light to – possibly with bulldog clips or clothes pegs.

2001, Grant Privett, Paul Parsons, “Deep-sky Observing”, in The Deep-sky Observer’s Year: A Guide to Observing Deep-sky Objects throughout the Year (Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series), London, Berlin: Springer Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, part I (Preparing for Deep-sky Observing), page 35:

When filled, a bulldog clip-forceps on the india-rubber tube, close to the canula, will prevent the escape of the water on transferring the syringe to position.

1886, Harrison Cripps, “TRANSFUSION”, in edited by Christopher Heath, Dictionary of Practical Surgery […], volumes II (Macroglossia–Zygoma), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 660, column 1:

Objections to the bulldog clip are that, in students' hands at least, it is more likely to do damage and lead to clotting than is the thread-loop, and that, on account of its small size and liability to be left by the student in the wound, it is apt to be lost, e.g. thrown away with the carcase when the tables are cleared after the class-meeting. A recurrent item of expense in working the class is avoided by dispensing with the bulldog clip.

1919, C[harles] S[cott] Sherrington, “Appendix”, in Mammalian Physiology: A Course of Practical Exercises, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 142:

The ligated vessel is pulled through the cannula and a bulldog clip is placed below the ligature.

1938, Corneille Heymans, “Blood Vessel Anastomosis with Payr Cannulae and without Anticoagulant, in Acute Experiments”, in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, volume 38, New York, N.Y.: Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 416:

A bulldog clip can be placed on the artery to produce temporary exclusion when an assessment of the anatomy and ischemic line is needed.

2017, Mark Halls, David Martinez-Cecilia, Salvatore Barbaro, Mohammad Abu Hilal, “Laparoscopic Left Lateral Sectionectomy”, in Miguel A. Cuesta, editor, Minimally Invasive Surgery for Upper Abdominal Cancer, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part V (Liver Tumors), page 310, column 1:

(surgery) A surgical instrument with serrated jaws and a spring-loaded handle used to grip blood vessels or similar organs.


press stud

Due to the unstructured fit of the dress, there are no fastenings apart from press studs that close the sides of the overbodice.

2017, Ciara Phipps, Claire Reed, Making Vintage Wedding Dresses: Inspiring Timeless Style:


split pin

A metal fastener with two tines, the ends of which project through an object being fastened and are bent back to hold it in place.

A stationery fastener that is inserted into punched holes in a stack of paper before being bent to secure them.


kirby grip

After the English manufacturers: Kirby, Beard & Co. Ltd. of Birmingham. Pre-dates the invention of the “bobby pin”. For the etymology of the surname, see Kirby.

(UK, Ireland) A type of double-pronged hairgrip


paper fastener

A stationery fastening device made of thin, soft metal, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.


gem clip

Trade name (Gem clip) of the late 19th century.

A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.


sleeve-button

[…] I took my leave of Morgan with many tears, after we had exchanged our sleeve-buttons as remembrances of each other.

1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 314:

“How those sleeve-buttons will suit me!” thought he, as he fixed a pair on the fat pudgy wrists of Mr. Sedley. “I long for sleeve-buttons; and the Captain’s boots with brass spurs, in the next room, corbleu! what an effect they will make in the Allee Verte!”

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

He wore […] projecting cuffs, fastened with large oxidized silver sleeve-buttons, bearing the device of a dog’s face—English pug.

1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[HTTP://WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/119/119-H/119-H.HTM 27]”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

The old man was fumbling with his sleeve button. Parker bared the arm, polished a little spot with a wisp of cotton saturated with alcohol, grasped the pathetically flabby skin with experienced fingers; and, tipping up the syringe, pushed the piston gently to expel the air.

1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 8, in Green Light, London: Peter Davies, page 137:

(dated) A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.


door opener

(sales): Compare get one's foot in the door.

Last, door systems are examined, particularly locking and latching mechanisms, door openers and door closers.

1988, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, page 336:

[…] the rack being engaged by a meshing door opening and/or closing pinion of a door opener whereby the door is thus capable of being opened upon the door opener controlled rotation of said pinion in one direction and of being closed upon the door opener controlled rotation of such pinion in the other direction.

2001, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 1355:

Latour's iconic example of doors and door openers helps boil down the complexity involved in the creation of any technology to a simple evocative case.

2018, James Gerrie, Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide, page 92:

The control mechanism by which a door is latched and unlatched.


cut nail

A nail having a tapering rectangular shape, produced by cutting from a sheet of iron or steel, now primarily used for masonry and historical renovations.


hogring

A metal ring, clasp, or other device inserted in a pig’s snout to keep it from rooting up the ground.

detent pin

implements preventing swine from rooting the ground


hair clip

If you're looking to transform into an e-girl, go to your nearest Target and purchase some cute hair clips, pink eyeshadow, blush, and some chains.

2020 March, Meera Mathur, “Being an e-boy/e-girl”, in 1870 Magazine, page 52:

clip

clip to hold back the hair — see also barrette