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(noun.) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable).

(noun.) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time.

(verb.) release by a toggle switch; 'toggle a bomb from an airplane'.

(verb.) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.

(verb.) provide with a toggle or toggles.

手打:特伦斯

• Then Earl Stanhope in England invented a press entirely of iron, and the power consisted of the combination of a toggle joint and lever. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In this press (see Fig. 123) the platen is forced downwardly by a compound lever applied to a toggle joint and is raised by springs on each side. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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