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

Swiftfoot :: Swifter (v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer..

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

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..

Tourniquet :: Tourniquet (n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

Untighten :: Untighten (v. t.) To make less tight or tense; to loosen.

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..

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

Brace :: Brace (v. t.) To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves..

Garrot :: Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

Frap :: Frap (v. t.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together..

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..

Tightening :: Tightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tighte.

Tightened :: Tightened (imp. & p. p.) of Tighte.

Ecraseur :: Ecraseur (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows..

Tightener :: Tightener (n.) That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley..

Tight :: Tight (v. t.) To tighten.

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

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