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rawl plug en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A wall plug; a screw anchor.
   • 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:
   • Andrew Wade, the Head of Voice at the RSC, had the brilliant idea of using the small plastic tubes you can buy in DIY shops, to cut up and use as rawl plugs […] 2002, Barbara Houseman, Finding your voice: a step-by-step guide for actors:
   • 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:

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