Sentence examples similar to cotter pinned from inspiring English sources
These early frames have a satisfying constructional elegance and were all assembled on site, with piping, special fittings and cotter pins.
And their 20,000 aged parts -- springs, rollers, spindles, cotter pins, light bulbs -- must interact seamlessly for the proper tallying of that prized but often-neglected possession of the citizen, the vote.
Several are illustrated in the Figure, including the slotted or castellated nut; when this nut is tightened on the bolt, the slots are aligned with a hole in the bolt and locked in place by a cotter pin or wire lacing to prevent loosening or unscrewing.
If you were to take apart George Packer's ambitious new book, "The Unwinding," as if it were a car's engine, and spread the parts across your garage, you'd essentially be looking at 5 large pieces and 10 small ones — the nuts and bolts and cotter pins.
Why should these guys be rubbing their greasy paws on my GPS system so they can check my cotter pins?
In early July, the CAB announced their investigators believed that a cotter pin and a bolt missing from the rudder mechanism might have caused Flight 1's crash.
There are three centers of inconsistency between the HRF results and this model in which the C-terminal residues assume an irregular "cotter pin" structure.
Locate the cotter pin on the hub.
Remove the cotter pin from the axle nut.
Many sailboats have dismasted because a 15-cent cotter pin was missing!
