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(kŏt'ər) pronunciation
n.
  1. A bolt, wedge, key, or pin inserted through a slot in order to hold parts together.
  2. A cotter pin.

[Origin unknown.]


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Architecture: cotter
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A beveled piece of wood or steel, used as a wedge for fastening.

WordNet: cotter
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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a peasant farmer in the Scottish highlands
  Synonym: cottar

Meaning #2: a medieval English villein
  Synonym: cottier

Meaning #3: fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
  Synonym: cottar

Wikipedia: Cotter
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UK cotter pin from a bicycle crank
For other uses, see Cotter (disambiguation).

A cotter is a pin or wedge passing through a hole to fix parts tightly together. In British usage cotter pin has the same meaning,[1] but in U.S. it refers to different fasteners.

Typical applications are in fixing a crank to its crankshaft, as in a bicycle, or a piston rod to a crosshead, as in a steam engine.

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Formerly, it was common to mount bicycle crank arms using a cotter, though now usually a more easily maintained arrangement is used such as a square tapered or splined interface. These cotters have a short threaded section at the narrower end of the taper, which is used to hold the cotter in place with a washer and nut.

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  1. ^ Van der Plas, Rob (1993), The Bicycle Repair Book: The New Complete Manual of Bicycle Care (2nd ed.), MBI Publishing Company, p. 66, ISBN 9780933201552, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7GHr12q6mVQC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66 .

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Translations: Cotter
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - landarbejder, forpagter, fæstebonde, splitkile

Nederlands (Dutch)
spie

Français (French)
n. - (Hist) valet de ferme, (Écosse) paysan, (Tech) goupille fendue

Deutsch (German)
n. - Splint

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περόνη, γκαβίλια

Italiano (Italian)
bietta, contadino bracciante

Português (Portuguese)
n. - aldeão (m)

Русский (Russian)
фермер-арендатор, шпонка

Español (Spanish)
n. - chaveta, cuña, pasador

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - torpare (skotsk.), sprint

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
住茅屋的人, 农场雇工

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 住茅屋的人, 農場雇工

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 오두막집에서 사는 사람, 코터, 비녀 못

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 小屋住み農, 横くさび, 込み栓
v. - コッターで結合する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قطعه لتثبيت جزئين, سفين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮זיז המחבר חלקי מכונה, אריס, איכר, פין מתפצל, אדם הגר בבית קטן מחוץ לעיר‬

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