cotter

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As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.

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.

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Release the cotter pin from the spindle nut, then remove the nut and washer, and the entire hub should slip off the axle.

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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.

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Their place was taken by the middleman, through whose ruthless agency they extorted their rents and who frequently sublet, sometimes even three or four deep, so that the cotter groaned under a hierarchy of extortion.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin