tire-fond
French
Alternative forms
- tirefond
Etymology
From Middle French tirefond, equivalent to tire + fond. Possibly influenced by or borrowed from Old Occitan tirafons.
Pronunciation
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Noun
tire-fond m (plural tire-fonds)
- eyebolt [from 15th c.]
- a large wood screw; (rail transport) wood screw attaching a chair to a cross-tie
- (medicine, historical) a threaded rod used as part of a bullet extractor
Descendants
- → Romanian: tirfon
- → Turkish: tirfon
See also
- tire-bouchon
- tire-balle
Further reading
- “tire-fond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.