And here are the linchpins, made of hard wood; I wattled them at odd times.
"Foul Play"
Charles Reade Dion Boucicault
Then he bored two holes in each pole, about four inches from either extremity, and fitted his linchpins; then he drew out his linchpins, passed each pole first through one disk, and then through another, and fastened his linchpins.
"Foul Play"
Charles Reade Dion Boucicault
And now Helen's work came in; her grass rope bound the thwarts tight to the horizontal poles, leaving the disks room to play easily between the thwarts and the linchpins; but there was an open space thirteen inches broad between the thwarts; this space Hazel herring-boned over with some of Helen's rope drawn as tight as possible.
"Foul Play"
Charles Reade Dion Boucicault