Category:Toggle

Tog"gle, n. Etym: [cf. Tug.] [written also toggel.]

1. (naut.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.