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Highty-tighty :: Highty-tighty (a.) Hoity-toity.

Key :: Key (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Strany :: Strangury (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it..

Tight :: Tight (superl.) Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings..

Steeving :: Steeve (n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly..

Spanner :: Spanner (n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose..

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc..

Calking :: Calking (n.) The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing..

Stretch :: Stretch (v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

Garrote :: Garrote (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted..

Fist :: Fist (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow..

Air Jacket :: Air jacket () A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming..

Tort :: Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut.

Gastight :: Gastight (a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Sticky :: Stick-tight (n.) Beggar's ticks.

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces..

Sinch :: Sinch (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges..

Windtight :: Windtight (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.

Brace :: Brace (n.) The state of being braced or tight; tension.

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