lynchpin

English

Noun

lynchpin (plural lynchpins)

1. Alternative form of linchpin
   • 1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110:

     Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.

Verb

lynchpin (third-person singular simple present lynchpins, present participle lynchpinning, simple past and past participle lynchpinned)

1. Alternative form of linchpin