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Fastening   /fˈæsənɪŋ/  /fˈæsnɪŋ/   Listen
Fastening

noun
1.
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place.  Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast.
2.
The act of fastening things together.  Synonym: attachment.



Fasten

verb
(past & past part. fastened; pres. part. fastening)
1.
Cause to be firmly attached.  Synonyms: fix, secure.  "She fixed her gaze on the man"
2.
Become fixed or fastened.
3.
Attach to.
4.
Make tight or tighter.  Synonym: tighten.



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"Fastening" Quotes from Famous Books



... can alter it to your satisfaction, but I must ask you to be indulgent, signora. I will bring it back the day after to-morrow, if that will suit you." She folded the bodice carefully and wrapped it in the piece of paper she had brought it in, fastening the four corners ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton

... rank old Federalist, a Pennsylvania Abolitionist, and as the wicked traducer, violent calumniator, and malignant persecutor of Henry Clay—even attributing his promotion to the Secretaryship of State, by Mr. Polk, to his infamous agency in fastening upon Mr. Clay the foul charge of "bargain, intrigue, and corruption." We confess that we are at a loss to see how Jones can fall into the support of Buchanan. The nomination of the man is a direct ...
— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow

... he stripped the body of its armor, and fastening cords to the feet, tied them behind his chariot, leaving the body to trail along the ground. Then mounting the chariot he lashed the steeds, and so dragged the body to and fro before the city. What words can tell the grief of King Priam and Queen Hecuba at this sight! ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... disappeared. But then the courage of these superstitious Scotchmen, which had failed before a fancied danger, returned in face of a real one, which they were ready to brave in order to save their fellow-creatures. The tempest did not deter them. As heroic as they had before been credulous, fastening ropes round their waists, they rushed into the waves to the aid of those ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne

... if it did not blow away his treasure. I fancied I could see him running over the tale of his coin by a feeble rushlight—squat, perhaps, on the dirty tile-floor—then locking his box, and placing it carefully under the pillow of his straw pallet, then tip-toeing to the door to examine again the fastening, then carefully extinguishing the taper, and after, dropping into an anxious, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various


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