Then our blessed railway kermishen lost its linchpin and the soulless corporations heaped coals of fire upon our heads by reducing rates, thereby making our boasted wisdom a byword and a reproach.
You realize that the linchpin is slipping out of your logic, but you let 'er slip.
There is very little in them and very little of them; and so there is not much in a linchpin considered by itself, but it often keeps a wheel from coming off and prevents what might be a catastrophe.
When the linchpincomes out on his side, there'll be a jerk, I tell you!
The drawbolt on a linchpin wagon usually has a head made in the form of the jaws of a wrench.
Plow wheel hub extensions should reach two inches beyond the journal both at the large end of the hub and at the nut or linchpin end.
Old-fashioned Linchpin farm wagons were built on this principle.
There is a hole through each band on the outer ends of the hubs to pass the linchpin through so that before taking off a wheel to oil the journal it must first be turned so the hole comes directly over the linchpin.
I will try to be brave, ma'am; but I really did try to put the linchpin back.
Leslie set off in chase, shouting for the man to stop; but the farmer, paying no heed to his cries, soon left him far behind with the abstracted linchpin in his hand.
So lend me a knife, till I cut a linchpin out of the hedge, for this one won't go far.
It split in the axles when he was making the linchpin holes, and the wheels had to be kept on by linchpins that were tied in; the wheels themselves split, and had to be strengthened by slats nailed across the rifts.
Why, sir, the linchpin was all rotted away, I suppose, and came out.
And he looked at the wheels, and shortly afterwards the linchpin came out?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linchpin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
