cotter
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As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.
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Release the cotter pin from the spindle nut, then remove the nut and washer, and the entire hub should slip off the axle.
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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.
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Serial writers ran out of hazards years ago, have been working switches on them ever since; the loose cotter pin on the stagecoach, for example, has been used an estimated 7,000 times.
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“The yardling and the cotter worked in the same way; their manner of life was the same.”
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
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