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Definition of Tautly
1. Adverb. In a taut manner. "The rope was tautly stretched"
Definition of Tautly
1. Adverb. In a taut manner, tightly, tensely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tautly
1. in a taut manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautly
Literary usage of Tautly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"I used to carry, almost con- tautly, a copy of Webster's spelling book in my
pock- t ; and, when sent of errands, or when play time was llowed me, ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"The trees were everywhere bent into the path like bows tautly strung, and you
had only to shake them with your hand or foot, when they rose up and made way ..."
3. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... complains that, whereas he con-tautly eakfast with his mistress upon
chocolate, (ait upon her the first of May, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"... rapid and powerful movements, to effect which their muscles must be as firm
and their vertebra as tautly braced as in their surface-swimming relatives. ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"The fleets of coasters, too, of every rig and size, with their sails tautly
spread, fly over the water like flocks of sea-gulls on the wing; ..."
6. The Integrative action of the nervous system by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"... musculature is all the time steadily active, antagonizing gravity in maintaining
the head raised, the trunk semi-erect, and the hind legs tautly flexed ..."
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