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Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Padlock :: Padlock (n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc..

Latchet :: Latchet (n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

Lock :: Lock (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness..

Outmarch :: Outmarch (v. t.) To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

Cotter :: Cotter (n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key..

Fast-handed :: Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails..

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Pin :: Pin (n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together..

Strap :: Strap (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.

Iron :: Iron (n.) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To fasten, support, or defend with stakes; as, to stake vines or plants..

Key :: Key (n.) That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position..

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