wing nut , auch: wingnut
thumb nut
butterfly nut
fly nut

Four big wing nuts held the metal plate in place.

It's not some wing nut in a human rights group out to get the military".

Right wing nut jobs who want to go back to grammar schools and the cane.

"Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac," he added.

"So I took the wing nuts off and worked the grill loose.

She loosened the wing nuts and pulled the cylinder out of the base.

The blade is usually clamped into position using a pair of wing nuts.

"I thought I might have to loosen a wing nut."

You really know you're a right wing nut when Michelle calls you out on it.

After doing so, Frank tightened the wing nuts on the tripod lightly.

There were wing nuts on the outsides of the grills.

Alice was unscrewing the big wing nuts on a grill.

There was a wooden catwalk immediately below him with three wing nuts on it.

Folding it for storage only involves undoing four wing nuts.

Getting the nose ring out was, in the end, quite easy, although the flesh had grown around the tiny wing nut.

He slipped out to the catwalk, scooped up the wing nuts.

He had eight wing nuts to fasten and twelve buttons to snap.

Susan, seeing this gave the wing nuts another turn or two and Ally's heel shifted forward again.

They often have a geometric "wing nut" or "butterfly" shape but are not limited to these.

Never fails to wind me up how right wing nut jobs always seem to ignore the power of accumulated capital.

Shift two wing nuts, and the long parts of the shoe trees become a steel fork.

- "And the leg piece attaches to this wing nut here."

It's adjustable with a wing nut so you can pick fruit at different angles," he said.

He tries to clamp it down, but his fingers slip on the bloody wing nut.

Loosening this wing nut will free the lamp assembly from the cap housing.