TOGGLING

Verb

toggling

present participle of toggle

Source: Wiktionary


TOGGLE

Tog"gle, n. Etym: [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]

1. (Naut.)

Definition: 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.)

Definition: Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.

– Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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