A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
A cotter pin.
To fasten with a cotter.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
A wedge.
A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.
To adjust something by using shims.
To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.