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Fastener

One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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Broader term 5

Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Constraint 76% connected

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 32

Bellyband 76% connected

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

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Buckle 76% connected

A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or…

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Button 76% connected

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Clasp 76% connected

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

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Cleat 76% connected

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

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Clinch 76% connected

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

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Clip 76% connected

To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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Clothespin 76% connected

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

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Cottar 76% connected

A cottager; a cottier.

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Cotter 76% connected

Alt. of Cottar

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Cringle 76% connected

A withe for fastening a gate.

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Dowel 76% connected

A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other,…

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Eyelet 76% connected

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

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Fillet 76% connected

A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

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Grommet 76% connected

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grumm…

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Joggle 76% connected

To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

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Knot 76% connected

A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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Lashing 76% connected

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Locker 76% connected

One who, or that which, locks.

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Loop 76% connected

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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Nail 76% connected

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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Pin 76% connected

To peen.

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Screw 76% connected

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

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Seal 76% connected

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

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Sealing wax 76% connected

A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Stopping 76% connected

of Stop

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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Toggle 76% connected

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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Derivationally related 2

Fasten 74% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fasten 74% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Synonym 3

Fastening 92% connected

of Fasten

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Fixing 92% connected

of Fix

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Holdfast 92% connected

Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

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