Hypertext Webster Gateway: "toggle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Toggle \Tog"gle\, n. [Cf. {Tug}.] [Written also {toggel}.]
1. (Naut.) 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.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
toggle
n 1: any instruction that works first one way and then the other;
it turns something on the first time it is used and then
turns it off the next time
2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
[syn: {toggle switch}, {on-off switch}]
3: a wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope
in order to fasten it to something
v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles
2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
3: release by a toggle switch, of a bomb from an airplane
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