toggery

[Humorously formed from Latin toga a toga.) Clothes, dre , garments. ( Slang.) "Had a gay cavalier thought fit to appear In any such toggery -then 'twas termed gear- He'd have met with a highly significant sneer." Barham: Ingold. Leg.; St. Romwold. tog'-gle, tog'-gel, s. [Prob. a dim in. from tag or tug.] I. Ord. Lang.: A button. II. Technically: 1. Naut .: A short wooden pin, or double cone of wood, firmly fixed in a loop at the end of a rope. By pa ing the toggle through the eye or bight of another rope, a junction is easily formed and quickly disengaged. It is useful in bending flags for signals, or it is attached to the end of a line to afford a firm hold for the fingers, as in the gunner's lanyard. It is also used in flensing whales, in which a hole is cut in the blubber, the eye of a purchase strap being pa ed through and toggled. "The yard-ropes were fixed to the halter by a toggle in the running noose of the latter." -Marryat: Frank Mildmay, ch. viii. 2. Mach .: Two rods or plates, hinged together, and employed to transmit a varying force by lateral pre ure upon the hinge, which is called the knuckle or knee.