Defn: 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.
2. (Mach.)
Defn: Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. — Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.
TOGHT
Toght, a.
Defn: Taut. [Obs.] Chaucer.
TOGIDER; TOGIDRES
To*gid"er, To*gid"res, adv.
Defn: Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.
TOGS
Togs, n. pl. [See Toggery.]
Defn: Clothes; garments; toggery. [Colloq. or Slang]
TOGUE
Togue, n. Etym: [From the American Indian name.] (Zoöl.)