cringle, eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet
(noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
grommet (plural grommets)
A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
(nautical) A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay.
(flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard.
(surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
A boy serving on a ship.
• (eyelet): grunyon
• (nautical): cringle
• (surfer, snowboarder): grom
grommet (third-person singular simple present grommets, present participle grommeting, simple past and past participle grommeted)
(transitive) To insert a grommet into.
(transitive) To fasten using a grommet.
(intransitive) To apply grommets.
Source: Wiktionary
Grom"met, n. Etym: [F. gourmette curb, curb chain, fr. gourmer to curb, thump, beat; cf. Armor. gromm a curb, gromma to curb.]
1. A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
