cotter

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The ring is attached to a light cable which jerks out two cotter pins freeing the flaps of the canvas 'chute-pack.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each set screw is cut off square at the point, and presses on the flat bottom of a very shallow groove cut on the side of the cotter.

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