toggler

English

Etymology

toggle +‎ -er

Noun

toggler (plural togglers)

1. Something that toggles between two states or causes something else to toggle between two states.
   • 1961, The Manager - Volume 29, page 665:

     No one else had really understood how to operate the automatic toggler; and xyz Company had no service agreement or other contract with the manufacturer. So the toggler was pushed into the stationery cupboard, where it remained until the company went bankrupt a few years later.

   • 1969, Alekseĭ Arkhipovich Leonov, V. I. Lebedev, Perception of space and time in outer space, page 44:

     In orienting a spacecraft, in executing turns, etc., and astronaut must operate the levers, buttons, and toggler switches, not to mention many other motory tasks.

   • 1998, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Iscas '98: Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 31-June 3, 1998, Monterey, CA., →ISBN:

     The complexity of the Bit toggler is harder to quantify.

   • 2017, Akram Najjar, The Hidden Paw's Third 50 Puzzles, →ISBN, page 139:

     This goes on and on: as long as you are asking questions, a toggler will toggle. (Keep in mind that on being asked a question the first time, a toggler will randomly choose to tell the truth or to lie).

2. A machine operator who is responsible for turning the machine on and off.
   • 1939, Jacob Perlman, Earnings and Hours in Shoe and Allied Industries During First Quarter of 1939:

     The occupations showing a considerable number of piece workers were machine stakers, togglers, tackers, buffers, machine setters-out, glazing-machine operators, hand finishers or seasoners, and shaving-machine operators.

   • 1958, Benefit Series Service, Unemployment Insurance:

     His last period of employment began on February 3, 1958, and, once again, he was employed as a toggler on a piece-rate basis.

   • 1969, Monthly Labor Review, page 70:

     Numerically important jobs for which incentive pay was the norm included machine buffers, fleshing- and unhairing-machine operators, shaving-machine operators, and tackers, togglers, and pasters.

3. A type of fastener that has hinged wings that spread to provide a surface against which the fastener can be tightened (e.g. a toggle bolt).
   • 1975, Southern Florist and Nurseryman - Volume 88, Issues 28-40, page 71:

     Sold in sealed blister packages, each contains two plastic toggler anchors, two metal hooks and a "popping" device.

   • 1982, Sidney E. Douglass, A Pictorial history of railroads of Newago County, Michigan, page 6:

     Here, with the log cars tilted, the togglers on the retaining chains were released and the logs rolled off the bunks, bounced against a heavy post that spun them around 90 degrees into a chute, down which they slid into the water.

   • 1991, William Perkins Spence, L. Duane Griffiths, Furnituremaking: design and construction, page 88:

     Toggler screw anchors can be used in hollow walls or as anchors in solid wall materials.

   • 2002, Stephen Ausherman, Typical Pigs, →ISBN, page 47:

     They make nuts, bolts, tapping screws, fasteners, anchors, togglers, drills, taps, rings, sockets and pop rivets.

4. A person occupied chaining up logs to prevent them from rolling off during transport on railroad cars and trucks.
   • 1918, Descriptions of Occupations, page 31:

     The toggler fastens a chain about the logs upon a car for transportation, to keep them from rolling off.

5. A member of a bomber crew responsible dropping bombs from a wing plane at a signal from the lead bombardier.
   • 1999, Rebecca Hancock Cameron, Training to fly: military flight training, 1907-1945, page 490:

     Reports from the combat theaters highlighted the important role of the underappreciated bombardier well past the time when many gunners had become togglers, and operations had come to deemphasize accuracy.

   • 2001, James J. Mahoney, Brian H. Mahoney, Reluctant Witness, →ISBN:

     Also, not everyone was happy with our combat crew modifications: dropping copilots from lead crews; replacing bombardiers with togglers in our wing crews; eliminating our ball-turret gunners, etc.

   • 2009, Travis L. Ayres, The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II, →ISBN:

     Trained as a bombardier, Kelly was reassigned . John Stiles would move from his waist gunner's position to take over the bombsight operation as the crew's toggler.