Antedating of "Wing Nut"

[Shapiro, Fred]

wing nut (OED 1910)

Godey's Lady's Book and magazine
Page 200
Volume XLIX--From July To December 1854
edited by Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and Louis Antoine Godey.
Published by Louis A Godey - Philadelphia

[Reference is to a lapidary's bench]

"...it is secured below the bench by a wing-nut, so as to allow the peg to be moved..."


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