What is "toggles"

Usage examples of "toggles".

With a look of sadness in the large, fey eyes, he stared around the room, then reached again to the master machine, slid back a panel and flipped five toggles, sharply.

The bell rang, signaling the second mark, and they spun their chairs at the same moment, fingers snapping toggles, minds on the necessities of piloting, and all the words they spoke for some time had to do with that.

He was draped over the rack in front of the control board, his tentacles resting on the various toggles and verniers, and a rising hum indicated that the tubes were warming.

Dropping to my knees I knocked open the toggles that held down the engine hatch and I slid it open.

I went back into the cabin and knocked back the toggles on the engine-room hatch.

An hour later, arms cramping from their grip on the control toggles, back aching with the dead weight of his rucksack dragging at his harness, he approached the clouds, which were rushing up toward him like a vast, fuzzy cotton floor.

Ten meters up he pulled down on both steering toggles, curling down the upper rear edge of his canopy like a gigantic set of flaps.

Working at the toggles, he could feel the chute responding now to his guidance, and when he unsheathed the flashlight from his vest pocket and turned it on the canopy, everything looked all right, at least so far as he could see.