cotter
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The cause of the accident was narrowed down to a cotter pin, which one of the mechanics at Valbuena Field had forgotten to replace after greasing the landing wheels that morning.
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
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.
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
The cotter was ejected and driven to the bogs and mountains.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
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