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1. n. 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. n. Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
3. n. any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
4. n. a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
5. n. a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
6. v. provide with a toggle or toggles
7. v. fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
8. v. release by a toggle switch
9. 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. 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.
10. A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around itsmiddle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to anyother loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable ofbeing readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
11. v:34/n:66 n. any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time n. a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) v. provide with a toggle or toggles