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rawl plug

rawl plug noun: a wall plug; a screw anchor.

Noun

rawl plug (plural rawl plugs)

  1. A wall plug; a screw anchor.
    • After a large lunch in her kitchen, she showed me up to the bathroom with the collapsing shelf. She had bought a box of rawl plugs […]1983, David Plante, Difficult women: a memoir of three
    • In the morning, Mark found himself up a ladder in the hall with a drill, a pocketful of Rawl plugs and a mouthful of language.2006, John Gregory Betancourt, Sean Wallace, Horror: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition

Forms of rawl plug

pluralrawl plugs

Origin of rawl plug

From Rawlplug (“a trademark”); from the name of the original inventor, John Joseph Rawlings, and plug.

Questions about rawl plug

What does rawl plug mean?
Rawl plug means a wall plug; a screw anchor.
What part of speech is rawl plug?
Rawl plug is a noun.
What is the plural of rawl plug?
The plural of rawl plug is rawl plugs.

Words near rawl plug in the dictionary

  1. rawkers
  2. rawking
  3. rawks
  4. rawky
  5. Rawl
  6. rawl plug
  7. rawl plugs
  8. Rawle
  9. Rawles
  10. Rawley
  11. Rawleys

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