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
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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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