[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To secure or make fast by means of a toggle or toggles.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xi. (1856), 83. Each man … has a canvas strap … fastened to the tow-line; or, nautically,… toggled to the warp.
1899. W. Churchill, R. Carvel, xiii. I … beheld him … toggle it [a flag] to the ensign halyard.
1899. Outing (U.S.), XXX. 229/1. In the Mab and other canoes employing this device, the stick is toggled at one end to the rudder yoke, and at the other to the collar of the deck tiller.
2. To furnish with a toggle or toggles.
1875. Bedford, Sailor’s Pocket Bk., vi. (ed. 2), 216. Toggle the bight with a stretcher.
1905. Sat. Rev., 14 Oct., 499/1. A Union Jack made of bunting … roped and toggled.
