hook and eye
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It was Ruth's suggestion that the coats would be improved by a single hook and eye sewed on in the small of the back where the buttons usually are.
From The Gilded Age, Part 3. by Charles Dudley Warner
Finish, to correspond with, collar, placing a rosette in the centre of the cuff, and fastening with a hook and eye.
From The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 by Unknown
“I wonder,” Vi was sitting on the bed, sewing a hook and eye on the dress she had intended to wear, “if Amanda Peabody and The Shadow will be there.”
From Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck by Janet D. Wheeler
Attach a small hook and eye on each end and fasten two leather handles to the crosspieces.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
Her black dress ended at the neck abruptly in its own binding and a hook and eye.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
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