Air-tight: alternatives and connections

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight…

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…

The state of being braced or tight; tension.

A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.

A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…

A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when…

A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.

A tight grip.

Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cove…

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and perm…

One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.