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Definition of Tautening
1. tauten [v] - See also: tauten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautening
Literary usage of Tautening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The "Flower of Gloster," by Ernest Temple Thurston (1911)
"Some twenty yards ahead upon the path walked Eynsham Harry with his horse, the
tow-line sagging and tautening, sagging and ..."
2. American Medicine (1920)
"... there is a general tautening of the parts with a restriction of freedom of
movement, such as occurs in the game of golf, when the player "presses," as ..."
3. The Rod in India: Being Hints how to Obtain Sport, with Remarks on the by Henry Sullivan Thomas (1897)
"... you are helped at the critical moment by the fish's habit of descending to
its place at the bottom, and by the weight of the fish tautening your line, ..."
4. Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction by Arthur William Judge (1921)
"... number of coats employed in practice varies from 4 to 6, of which the first
and second have the greatest tautening effects, and the last coat the least. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"The men pulled away rather sulkily, their straw hats over their noses, the dip
of the hawser scarce tautening at each strain, as they squinted up at the ..."
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