cotter

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At the Mikawa mine on southern Kyushu island, a cotter pin apparently fell out of a coupling on a string of coal cars halted on a slight incline.

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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"On swinging tussock the lapwing leaps, Lark's note above plover's swelling, As the crook-backed cotter in silence creeps From his lonely moorland dwelling."

From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Ewald, Carl