The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. "The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning."
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"Hinge" Quotes from Famous Books — Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson — Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various — After Dark • Wilkie Collins — The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States — Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds |
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