safety plug
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A blaze orange safety plug sits at the end of every toy gun manufactured and sold in America.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2014
Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug from between the rocket's fins, and thus closed the control circuits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wires for connecting to the fuse after charging are placed conveniently, and the safety plug is then inserted in a box at the end of the west wall.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.
To insure the safety of the operator and the charger, the man who loads the cannon carries a safety plug without which the charge cannot be exploded.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.
The engineer running an engine with a safety plug seldom stops for a load of water until he blows out the plug.
From Rough and Tumble Engineering by Maggard, James H.
