tire-fond

== French == === Alternative forms === tirefond === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French tirefond. By surface analysis, tire +‎ fond. Possibly influenced by or borrowed from Old Occitan tirafons. === Pronunciation === === 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 ==== → Indonesian: tirpon → 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