Definition of Tautening

1. Verb. (present participle of tauten) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tautening

1. tauten [v] - See also: tauten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tautening

tauroursodeoxycholic
tauroursodeoxycholic acid
taurus
taurylic
taurylic acid
taus
tausonite
taut
taut-
tautaug
tautaugs
tauted
tautegorical
tauten
tautened
tautening (current term)
tautens
tauter
tautest
tauting
tautit
tautly
tautness
tautnesses
tauto-
tautochrone
tautochrones
tautochronous
tautog
tautogram

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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