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Hook-bolt

A bolt, one end of which is threaded for a nut, the other turned as a hook, and used for various purposes in the foundry, such as binding portions of loam and dry-sand moulds together, anchoring cores in lower moulds, and suspending them in covering-plates and copes. SEE ANCHOR.

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