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Answer for the clue "Transverse pin ", 6 letters:
toggle

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Word definitions for toggle in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. provide with a toggle or toggles fasten with, or as if with, a toggle release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Toggle may refer to: Toggle mechanism Toggle switch Toggling harpoon , an ancient weapon and tool used in whaling to impale a whale when thrown A type of textile closure, like an elongated button Toggle (Doonesbury character) , a character in the comic ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1769, "pin passed through the eye of a rope, strap, or bolt to hold it in place," a nautical word of uncertain origin, perhaps a frequentative form of tog "tug." As a kind of wall fastener it is recorded from 1934. Toggle bolt is from 1794; toggle switch ...

Usage examples of toggle.

The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.

When Alameda toggled the switch, it was as if she had left, and he was alone again.

Quite as fascinating as the toggle box was a dark, slender, and by Betan law very illegal little needle gun.

Flack, flack, went the toggles as the stage-hands laced them over the wooden cleats.

She went on admiring and inspecting her machine, reminding Sam of a forgotten day when Jackman had been given a new car and spent hours in silent admiration of it, in fingering its toggles and switches, like a child with a new and complicated toy.

A hooded chair occupied the center of the room, and beside it was a chest-high lectern whose face displayed a number of toggles and knurled wheels.

It was a netsuke of the eighteenth century, carved by Masanao of Kyoto, a toggle once used by the Japanese to hold the partitioned box which contained personal possessions, the cord between box and toggle threaded behind the sash.

Toggling the pictures forward, he hooked a chair towards him with his foot and told Suttle to sit down.

Yen waved at the fighter out on the pad, who backed away, and put on ear protectors, then snapped the toggle for the electrical starting motor for number two turbine on the port-engine control-console and watched the engine tachometer as the turbine spun up to speed, the whining noise coming from over his left shoulder.

He had even found that blue toggle switch which had closed the Plattnerite circuit.

Air Force dreamed up for shutting your eyes, toggling the bombload, gaining height, and getting the hell out.

He turned the periscope back over to Brayton and picked up the microphone, hit a toggle switch and spoke, his voice that echoed back at him sounding like the voice of a giant bouncing off the ocean floor.

Their canopies filled with air, hands on their steering toggles, the jumpers descended at an initial rate of about eighteen feet per second, passing through a high layer of cirrocumulus clouds composed of supercooled water and ice.

At ten thousand RPM he snapped up the second toggle marked FUEL INJ, beginning the fuel injection to the combustors, then toggled in the IGNITION switch, lighting off the combustion cans.

The two fell into flowchart, Holmesian deduction, tapping panels, toggling switches, volleying terms, injecting patches, and cross-referencing their way through the massive metal-bound manual with masochistic relish.