cotter (redirected from Cotter (bicycle part))

cotter¹ Machinery

1. any part, such as a pin, wedge, key, etc., that is used to secure two other parts so that relative motion between them is prevented

2. short for cotter pin

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cotter²

1. English history a villein in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman times occupying a cottage and land in return for labour

2. a peasant occupying a cottage and land in the Scottish Highlands under the same tenure as an Irish cottier

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cotter [′käd·ər]

(design engineering)

A tapered piece that can be driven in a tapered hole to hold together an assembly of machine or structural parts.