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Morse :: Morse (n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces..

Untie :: Untie (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter..

Unfix :: Unfix (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections..

Hasp :: Hasp (n.) A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door..

Breastpin :: Breastpin (n.) A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key..

Synarthrodia :: Synartesis (n.) A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.

Broach :: Broach (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

Mousing :: Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out..

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

Pegging :: Pegging (n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

Handcuff :: Handcuff (n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural..

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment..

Ligator :: Ligator (n.) An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature..

Spoked :: Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill..

String :: String (n.) A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string..

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc..

Strap :: Strap (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.

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