Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pin used for coupling or joining railroad-cars and other machinery.
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Examples
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The wheel horses, released by the coupling-pin falling from the main clevis, kicked themselves loose from the other team and tore madly across the uncut grain.
The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger
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"The blamed thing might hold and drag the caboose along after I've pulled out the coupling-pin," he reflected.
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"With a coupling-pin," she suggested with a little reminiscent laugh.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912
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He fastens the coupling-pin to the bell-cord, drops it down between the platforms, and pays out the cord.
"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907
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The "shack" (brakeman) takes a steel coupling-pin and a length of bell-cord to the platform in front of the truck in which the tramp is riding.
"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907
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The coupling-pin strikes the ties between the rails, rebounds against the bottom of the car, and again strikes the ties.
Holding Her Down 1907
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Every blow of that flying coupling-pin is freighted with death, and at sixty miles an hour it beats a veritable tattoo of death.
Holding Her Down 1907
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The coupling-pin strikes the ties between the rails, rebounds against the bottom of the car, and again strikes the ties.
"Holding Her Down" - More Reminiscences of the Underworld 1907
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The "shack" (brakeman) takes a coupling-pin and a length of bell-cord to the platform in front of the truck in which the tramp is riding.
Holding Her Down 1907
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The shack fastens the coupling-pin to the bell-cord, drops the former down between the platforms, and pays out the latter.
Holding Her Down 1907
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