cotter

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Serial writers ran out of hazards years ago, have been working switches on them ever since; the loose cotter pin on the stagecoach, for example, has been used an estimated 7,000 times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theirs is a world in which every boy matures to master small motors, to understand the importance of the cotter pin.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy�and grew in stature to measure up to both.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another plan is to put a cotter through the crank and the crank-pin.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan