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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
on a dog harness, a kind of button or fastener, such as a piece of bone, attached to the end of an individual dog line so that it can be passed through a ring when the dog is being hitched to the main line of a fan hitch, for example.
Quotations
1867
. . . by 'toggles' I mean round pieces of bone made small enough to slip through the bone ring . . .
1918
The dogs' traces should be of skin, and fastened with toggles or buttons to the bow-line.
1940
One unavoidable though minor drawback to the fan hitch arises from the inclination of the animals (dogs) to intermittently shift places; this results in the braiding of the numerous traces forward of the toggle, with the necessity of "clearing" after every few hours of travel
2n.
See quote.
Quotations
1932
These [logs in a log fence] were bound by a wooden toggle -- a grooved piece, shaped above and below to lie across the logs and hold them in place
3n.
a stick to which the end of a trap chain is attached, intended to restrict the movements of a trapped animal by catching on snags, trees, etc. as the creature attempts to make off.
Quotations
1937
He fastened the trap on a heavy spruce stick, called a "toggle," driving the ring on it. . . . He buried the stick and chain . . .