Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pin that locks one piece of a mechanism to another; specifically, nautical, a pin used to lock the forward rudder of a double-ended ferry-boat in a line with the keel. Also
locking-bolt .
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Examples
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Click! went a shutter before his face, and the locking-pin was dropped in.
The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports 1895
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