hinge

The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some lay dead on the pavement.

The pedicel of the pollinium is articulated as before by a hinge to the disc; it can move freely only in one direction owing to one end of the disc being upturned.

This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

If when the Moon is in the Hinge at East, / The Birth breaks forward from its native rest; / Full Eighty Years, if you two Years abate, / This Station gives, and long defers its Fate