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Toggle  n.  (Written also toggel)  
1.
(Naut.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
2.
(Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
3.
A toggle switch.






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"Toggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tied down forty head, the next morning finding thirty of them unbranded and therefore unowned. All tame cattle would naturally water in the daytime, and anything coming in at night fell a victim to our ropes. A wooden toggle was fastened with rawhide to its neck, so it would trail between its forelegs, to prevent running, when the wild maverick was freed and allowed to enter the herd. After a week or ten days, if an animal showed any disposition to quiet down, it was ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams



Words linked to "Toggle" :   fix, fasten, DIP switch, on-off switch, instruction, fixing, let go, dual inline package switch, on/off switch, holdfast, relinquish, furnish, fastening, let go of, toggle joint, fastener, electric switch, supply, render, electrical switch, release



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