fastening
IPA: fˈæsʌnɪŋ
noun
- A hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together; fastener.
Advertisement
Examples of "fastening" in Sentences
- The fastening is generally achieved combining hinges and braces with some locking mechanism.
- The fastening was the old-fashioned wooden shutters hung outside and closed with a single slide.
- Where the parts are held against one another such threads are called fastening threads, i.e. vee-threads.
- Afke had some difficulty in fastening hers, for they were a bit small for her, and the straps had seen better days.
- After manoeuvring with more than her usual art, she succeeded in fastening Belinda upon the fashionable Lady Delacour for the season.
- Its third article was the sole one referred to as fastening forever the institution of slavery on the inhabitants of this vast empire.
- Three: leather pieces mounted with shoe buttons – in fastening these leather pieces the children make use of the button-hook – corresponds to a child's shoes.
- The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other sins.
- When he last looked at it he noticed that the fastening was a trifle slack and, though he handed the trinket back, he told her distinctly that she was not to wear it till it had been either to Tiffany's or Starr's.
- At length he softly rose and crept noiselessly to the door; the fastening was the primitive latch with a string attached; it opened without a sound in his cautious handling, and he found himself in the pitchy darkness outside, the wild mountain wind whirling about him, and the rain descending in steady torrents.
Advertisement
Advertisement