Concept cluster: Tools > Securing or fastening
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To apply a bandage to something.
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To tie something.
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(now Scotland) Any given length of cord, rope, twine, etc, used to bind something.
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(dated) Handcuffs.
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(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)
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Something that cinches as in holds and fastens, such as a belt or corset.
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(dated) A zip fastener.
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Alternative form of copperfasten [(transitive, historical) To protect the timbers of (a ship) with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.]
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(transitive, historical) To protect the timbers of (a ship) with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
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(figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
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(nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.
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A hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together; fastener.
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A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
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To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
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(transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
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(transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
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(transitive, UK, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
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A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
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(transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
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To fasten up.
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The act of tying the feet together in this way.
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Alternative spelling of hog-tie [The act of tying the feet together in this way.]
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(engineering) A clamping device that holds another structural element in place.
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(transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
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(transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
n
(obsolete) A latching.
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To tie reliably.
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(transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
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(Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially catle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
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(transitive) To tie (something) with rope.
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(transitive) to tie up using a rope.
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(transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
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To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
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A shackle that closes by means of a spring.
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Any supporting framework or base.
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(transitive) To form by uniting strands.
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The act of fastening with a strap.
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(transitive) To bind with a strap; strap; entangle.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
adj
(veterinary) tied, strapped, especially with tethers or hobbles.
n
A strong connection between people or groups of people.
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(US, slang, dated, imperative)
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An authorized product based on a media property, such as a film or video game, by way of cross-promotion.
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The act of securing something using a tiedown.
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Something that ties.
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(obsolete or colloquial) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.
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(transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
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(informal) Synonym of twist tie
v
To fasten with Velcro.
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Synonym of wire away (“to act with vigour”)
adj
Held together with a binding of wire.
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To fasten with a zip tie.
n
Alternative form of zip tie [Synonym of cable tie]
v
Alternative form of zip tie [To fasten with a zip tie.]
n
Alternative form of zip-wire [Synonym of zipline]

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