Fastened

Word FASTENED
Character 8
Hyphenation fastened
Pronunciations /ˈfɑːsn̩d/

Definitions and meanings of "Fastened"

What do we mean by fastened?

To attach or connect in a secure manner.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Fastened

The word "fastened" in example sentences

You will find the label fastened to the handle-bar. ❋ Maurice Leblanc (1902)

It would have been a shock had he not seen it before and been familiar with the label fastened to the breastbone reciting that this had once been Flat Nose George, an early day desperado of the high country. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Young trees purchased from the nursery generally have a label fastened to them with a piece of wire. ❋ Charles Landon Goodrich (N/A)

He looked down at himself and noticed that he had on only a rope around his waist with a strip of cloth fastened from the front to the back. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But for the safety pin fastened to his left eyebrow, he looked like a neo-Nazi skinhead. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Had not her name fastened for long enough on my heart, sucking it dry? ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the earlier of them the mythical Brazil, a relic perhaps of the lost Atlantis, lay a regularly and mystically blue island off the west coast of Ireland; then the Azores were discovered and the name fastened on to one of the islands of that archipelago. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)

Michel had my portmanteau fastened on my horse, which had been brought out into the courtyard, and then he stood by me while I took my last breakfast in La Tournoire; and, in my haste to be off, I would have eaten little had he not pressed much upon me, reminding me how many leagues I would have to ride before meeting a good inn on the Paris road. ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)

The designation fastened upon us as a stigma was a fraud from the beginning, a conscious fraud and a malicious invention. ❋ Max Simon Nordau (1886)

Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains -- Roman prisoners had a chain fastened at one end to the wrist of their fight hand, and at the other to the wrist of a soldier's left hand, leaving the right arm of the keeper free in case of any attempt to escape. ❋ Unknown (1871)

They were particularly destructive to birds which had been stuffed and preserved as curiosities, and what was worse, were uncommonly fond of ink, so that the writing on the labels fastened to different articles were quite eaten out; and the only thing that preserved books from them was the closeness of the binding, which prevented these devourers getting between the leaves. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

He will be ordered about by warders, will have a number label fastened on to his coat, he will be locked in a cell with a spy-hole in the door, through which any passing stranger may watch him; his food will be handed to him in a tin pan with a tin knife and spoon; and he will be periodically called out of his cell and driven round the exercise yard with a mob composed, for the most part, of the sweepings of the London slums. ❋ Unknown (1902)

“If I run down to the Dedlock, and get my portmanteau fastened up, and order a gig, or a chaise, or whatever’s to be got, we shall have an hour then before starting. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One wouldn't give a half-penny for a monument if one could get a phrase fastened in a people's memory like that. " ❋ Melville Davisson Post (N/A)

"If I run down to the Dedlock, and get my portmanteau fastened up, and order a gig, or a chaise, or whatever's to be got, we shall have an hour then before starting. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1853)

There are many labels fastened on those who abdicate a mandatory shift of wealth from the haves to the have-nots. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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