Toggle
['tɒg(ə)l] or ['tɑɡl]
Definition
(noun.) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable).
(noun.) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time.
(verb.) release by a toggle switch; 'toggle a bomb from an airplane'.
(verb.) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.
(verb.) provide with a toggle or toggles.
Editor: Terence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
(n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Edited by Abraham
Definition
n. (naut.) a short bar of wood tapering from the middle towards each end placed in an eye at the end of a rope to keep the end from passing through a loop or knot: an appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.—v.t. to fix like a toggle-iron: to fix fast.—ns. Togg′le-ī′ron a whaler's harpoon with movable blade instead of barbs; Togg′le-joint an elbow or knee joint.
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Examples
- Then Earl Stanhope in England invented a press entirely of iron, and the power consisted of the combination of a toggle joint and lever. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this press (see Fig. 123) the platen is forced downwardly by a compound lever applied to a toggle joint and is raised by springs on each side. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Edited by Alexander