cotter

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Jaws adjust to open wide, making easy work of bending the legs of new cotter pins and loosening large nuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cause of the accident was narrowed down to a cotter pin, which one of the mechanics at Valbuena Field had forgotten to replace after greasing the landing wheels that morning.

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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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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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It brought commutation of tithe, a measure of immense value, far too long delayed, which shifted the burden of payment from the shoulders of the cotter to those of the landlord.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin