Taut is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAUT in dictionary:

VERB:
• (Scots) to mat, tangle, also TAWT
• Scots word meaning to tangle
ADJECTIVE:
• stretched tight
• stretched or pulled tight; not slack
• (especially of muscles or nerves) tense; not relaxed
• (of writing, music, etc.) concise and controlled
• (of a ship) having a disciplined and efficient crew
• drawn tight
• Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
• Snug; close; firm; secure.
• pulled or drawn tight
• subjected to great tension; stretched tight
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fully stretched, so as not to be slack
• to tangle

Words related to TAUT

tauted7 tauter6 tautest7 tauting8 tautly9 tautness8 tautnesses10 tauts5 tawt7

How to use TAUT in a sentence

• Handy Solomon, taut as the weather rigging, took his little advantages one by one like precious gifts.
• Then, having established the taut rein which he preferred, he sent the cow pony down the slope.
• The Huitfeldt binding is a thick double-leather strap, which buckles round the whole foot and has a strong spring to pull it taut when the binding has been slipped on to the heel.
• He had to admit to himself that his nerves seemed to be about as taut as piano wires.
• The taut muscles of her youth were loose and drooping.
• And, in the whispering gloom, taut, listening faces Hung in a pallid line along the bay.
• After a taut moment of silence, a frightened scream rose from every living thing on land and sea.
• There upon the sand lay the skeleton of a whale and the wind playing upon the taut sinews made sounds low and soothing enough to lull her to sleep.
• His enemy actually was recumbent in the snow before him, while he, taut as a strung bow, was most exquisitely poised for the attack.
• Note the tension of their jaw muscles, the taut lines of sinews in their entire bodies when reaching a climax of force.
• Slash! One stroke of the knife severed the remaining rope, already drawn as taut as a piano wire.
• Leff gripped the wheel, cursing, his hands knotted round the spokes, his back taut and muscle-ridged under the thin shirt.
• Then Hozier tugged sharply at the rope three times, and it grew taut.
• With incredible speed and quickness they flung loops of rope around ankles and wrists, ran them taut, and made the Burman a prisoner.
• Then the ropes which were about his wrists were drawn taut and made fast, and he was a helpless prisoner.
• Richard passed the rope round the bottom of the iron spout, and beneath an iron clasp, that prevented its slipping upward, and then made it taut.
• Here, too, are Monsieur Pocard, and Crillon, new shaved, his polished skin taut and shiny, and several other people.
• All in a twinkling that whirling yellow ball shot out of the tree, striking the ground before Tad Butler could draw the rope taut.
• And the only sound was the wind, as it sang through the taut wires in the unspeakable sadness of minor chords.
• Still, with that enraged grizzly bearing swiftly down upon him, in spite of the one rope that still held taut, the position of poor Jerry was not the most pleasant in the world.
• He could not continue tormenting her, racking her delicate, taut sensibilities by a hard insistence.
• I rise, too, to replace, to attach, and set the exhausted line taut and complete again.
• In the most matter-of-fact manner, he gave me another whiff of that incomparable perfume, and I felt my taut nerves steady.

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