Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pin used instead of a nut to keep a cotter in its place, as in fixing the pedals of a bicycle to the cranks.

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Examples

  • So she went to her father's charioteer, Myrtilos, and persuaded him to sabotage Oenomaus 'chariot by putting in a wax cotter-pin, making a wheel fall off.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

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