(nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.

To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever. / To switch between alternate states. / (nautical, transitive) To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast.

plural of toggle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of toggle

simple past tense and past participle of toggle

present participle of toggle

A mechanical linkage of the type of 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 brought into this position.

A harpoon with one or more pivoted crosspieces in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.

A switch actuated by moving a small lever; usually an on/off switch with two positions. / (graphical user interface) A control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.

A fastening device consisting of a bolt and a pair of hinged, usually sprung, wings threaded at the hinge to receive the bolt, used by inserting the bolt with wings folded into a small hole in a sheet material to the point where the wings unfold and the bolt can be tightened.