eyebar

[ ahy-bahr ]

nounCivil Engineering.
  1. a tension member, used especially in bridge and roof trusses, having the form of a metal bar enlarged at each end to include an eye.

Origin of eyebar

1
First recorded in 1885–90; eye + bar1

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