cotter

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As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy�and grew in stature to measure up to both.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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