cotter
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At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theirs is a world in which every boy matures to master small motors, to understand the importance of the cotter pin.
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 David Allan Low
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