cotter

Example Sentences

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The inspector general said the airline’s maintenance provider failed to insert a cotter pin on a critical flight control component that put some 30,000 passengers at risk.

From Reuters

The aircraft was missing a small cotter safety pin used to hold a nut in place, and that nut came loose - disconnecting pilots’ controls from the rotor, said Maj.

From Washington Times

Attorney Timothy Loranger says a missing safety cotter pin caused a malfunction in the helicopter’s tail rotor.

From Washington Times

We had no neighbors save the cotters on the far side of the island.

From Project Gutenberg

When a bolt has no thread but is secured by a taper pin, set screw, cotter, or device other than a nut, it is termed a pin.

From Project Gutenberg