collet

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle French collet. Doublet of collar.

To this may be added an endless variety of small bench tools, micrometers, protractors, arbors, collets, box tools and scrapers. — Practical Mechanics for Boys, James Slough Zerbe
He was astonished at this, and again touching the ring he turned the collet outwards and reappeared; he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same result—when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible, when outwards he reappeared. — The Republic, Plato
After that Panurge had very civilly saluted him, he in a free gift did present him with a gold ring, which he even then put upon the medical finger of his left hand, in the collet or bezel whereof was enchased an Oriental sapphire, very fair and large. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

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