snap link

Don't be tempted to fasten your lead on using a snap link.

Finally it freed itself from the snap link and tumbled down into his lap.

I then refastened the snap links to the last rung.

He shut the gate on the snap link and screwed the sleeve in place.

In this context one also speaks of 'snapping links'.

No, sir, you've got to rotate the snap link a half turn so that the gate is up and opens away from the body.

Then he screwed the sleeve over the gate, locking the snap link.

He smashed in the two tall panes of glass and fixed a snap link to the metal center post.

Quality snap links are a must.

We fastened our static-line snap links to the parallel cables running down both sides of the airplane.

The solicitation is for the supply of snap links for mountain climbing and rappelling.

The soldiers can use ropes and equipment straps to provide handholds and snap links to secure themselves.

He hooked the snap links of his sling into the wire, securing himself in place and took out the wire cutters.

He clipped a carabiner, the climber's snap link, to the metal ring in the piton and strung the rope through.

Flexible rubber fins grip to any cup holder.Shown wth adjustable snap link mount (not luded).

Snap link hooks were fitted to the inner ends of the axles to engage with the longitudinal arrester wires of the time.

"And you've got to take up some slack between the snap link and the anchor point and--" Peter fumbled with it.

Even in the pale, almost nonexistent light, he could see that there was a gate in the snap link that was fixed to the piton.

Taking another snap link from the accessory strap at his waist, Graham said, "First, I've got to link the main line to the sling."

Additional handholds and steel rings to receive the snap links of safety tethers bristled from among the pipes and conduits on the other three walls.

A soldier attached his rucksack with a snap link, stepped into the loop, adjusted it, inserted his left hand in the wrist loop, and on signal the helicopter lifted off.

And, as Gannon had done aboard the Cheetah, Santana and his men had covered all buckles, snap links, anything that could jingle or shine, with a layer of black tape.

A carabiner, which was sometimes referred to as a "snap link," could be employed to join two ropes at any point along them, which was essential when the ends of those lines were secured above and below.

Rogan turned over his mattress, slid his hand through the seam at one side and pulled out a coil of nylon rope and a sling with snap links at the end, of the type used by climbers.

A vital-but not the only-function of the highly polished snap links was to prevent ropes from chaffing each other, to guard against their fraying through on the rough, unpolished eye of a piton or on the sharp edge of a rock; carabiners saved lives.