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pin (fastener)

In mechanical and civil engineering, a peg or bar designed to fasten machine and structural components together or to keep them aligned. Dowel pins are used to keep machine components aligned, sometimes without making a rigid joint (as in a pin-connected truss). Taper pins are used to fix the hub of a gear or a pulley to a shaft. Split cotter pins prevent nuts from turning on bolts and keep loosely fitting pins in place. The clevis pin has a ridge at one end and is kept in place by a cotter pin inserted through a hole in the other end. Many other types of pins are used in various machines.

fastener [′fas·nər]
(design engineering)
A device for joining two separate parts of an article or structure.
A device for holding closed a door, gate, or similar structure.
fastener
A mechanical device, weld, or rivet for holding together two or more pieces, parts, members, or the like.
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My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
In this there was surely something mysterious, and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute, till the possibility of the door's having been at first unlocked, and of being herself its fastener, darted into her head, and cost her another blush.
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Take twenty dozen of these fasteners and I'll not visit any other store.
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