2. Verb. (third-person singular of toggle) ¹
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Definition of Toggles
1. toggle [v] - See also: toggle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toggles
Literary usage of Toggles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seamanship by George Strong Nares, United States Coast Guard Academy (1865)
"See the buntline toggles out at the head of the sail ; the clews, ... and bowline
toggles, clear at each end. Roll tip taut towards the head and put on ..."
2. A Treatise on Cranes by Henry Robinson Towne (1883)
"Weston Clutch with Capen toggles. Fig. 15 is a cross-section and end elevation
of a Weston Disc Clutch with the Capen toggle device applied for producing ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"The invention consists in connecting the piston-rod and crank of an engine by
means of a system of toggles and connecting-rods, applied and arranged in a ..."
4. Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch (1892)
"The use of these large floats is not peculiar to 1'oint Barrow. They are employed
by all Eskimo who pursue the larger marine mammals. Flipper toggles. ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"The invention consists in connecting the piston-rod and crank of an engine by
means of a system of toggles and connecting-rods, applied and arranged in a ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine (1856)
"... which is an advantage, and the dispensing with the toggles renders the anchor
less liable to foul. The engraving represents a side view of the improved ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1903)
"pressure of the pitman, which is resolved into horizontal pressure against the
jaw J, depends on the angle which the toggles make with each other. ..."
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