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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.

II. Toggle ·noun 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.

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