cotter
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Jaws adjust to open wide, making easy work of bending the legs of new cotter pins and loosening large nuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But before you break out the wrench and cotter pins, it helps to go over some propeller basics to find a good starting point.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ring is attached to a light cable which jerks out two cotter pins freeing the flaps of the canvas 'chute-pack.
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
To this very day there is a cotter's hut, called Kusabo, that stands on a hill named Kusas, and the cotter who lived there went to look for a horse.
From The Swedish Fairy Book by Various
