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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Tightened

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Tightening

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

Just where I please, with

tightened

rein
I’ll urge thee round the dusty plain.

Fawkes.

Tightening pulley

(Mach.)

a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

Verb.

ti'tn. To draw tighter; to straiten; to make close in any manner.