Fastening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FASTENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• close or do up securely
• be closed or done up in a particular manner
• fix or hold in place
• secure the end of a thread with stitches or a knot
• single out (someone or something) and concentrate on them or it obsessively
• direct one's eyes, thoughts, etc. intently at
NOUN:
• something that secures
• something that fastens something, such as a clasp or lock
• Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
• the act of fastening things together
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to secure

Words related to FASTENING

fasten9 fastened12 fastenings14 fastens10

Words that contain FASTENING

fastenings14 refastening15 unfastening15

How to use FASTENING in a sentence

• As he and Mac came out, Andrew was undoing the last fastening that held the canvas to the stakes.
• Lightly folding and fastening the cap together, he dropped it down, and, leaning forward, tried to catch the top of a young birch rustling close by the wall.
• This was followed by a sound like that occasioned by fastening a rope-ladder against the wall, and the next moment two figures were perceived above it.
• No one ever possessed greater power of enforcing the respect and fastening the affections of men.
• I cannot say positively what uses this very thin wire is put to, but something in surgery, I believe, either for fastening together portions of bone or for operations.
• Freckles turned his eyes from her and managed the fastening with shaking fingers.
• Immediately after the fastening went back, the latch was lifted, and the door swung noiselessly inward.
• As Nora was fastening it for her she saw her own face in the mirror and tried to twist it about in some way.
• Even with her teeth chattering and numbness fastening itself upon her, she shivered at the chances the man was taking.
• This last had a fastening on its tail, while the others were held by a cord round their bellies.
• She rowed him swiftly up the lake for several miles, then, fastening the canoe, led the way through a trail in the forest.
• To strengthen or mend a mast by fastening strips of wood or iron along a weak or broken place.
• Now remove the loose strips of ash and put on another layer of paper, fastening it along the edge of the boat by replacing the strips as before.
• It is better to polish all the pieces before fastening any of them together.
• The silence was fastening on me like a spell, and I spurred my horse impatiently forward to see for myself.
• The fort was uninjured except that the blacks had been at infinite pains to cut out most of the large spike nails fastening the logs of which the block-house was constructed.
• Her hand went to the fastening of her purse, and hesitated.
• It was so sudden that he only seized his desk, which was taken from its fastening at the bottom as if it were pasteboard, and went in ruins with its occupant.
• They secure the bag by fastening the sides of the basket together, and binding it round with strong twine which they make from grass.
• I hasten down-stairs, fastening my last bracelet as I go, and open the drawing-room door.
• Pass round it an India-rubber cord, which will form the fastening.
• In fastening off, make a tight button-hole stitch, run on three stitches, bring the needle out at the back, and cut off.
• Nan herself was fastening her boot again with unwonted composure.

Similar words containing FASTEN without suffix ing

fasten9 fastens10 fastened12 fastener11 refasten11 unfasten11 fasteners12 refastens12 unfastens12 fastenings14 refastened14 unfastened14 refastening15 unfastening15

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