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Attach, as seat belts
Answer for the clue "Attach, as seat belts ", 6 letters:
fasten
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fæstnian "make fast, make firm, fix, secure," also "ratify, betroth, confirm," from Proto-Germanic *fastinon "to make firm or fast" (cognates: Old Frisian festnia "to make firm, bind fast," Old Saxon fastnon , Old High German fastnion , German ...
Usage examples of fasten.
To which of the stages of language does this belong--the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?
He fastened the embroidered peacock agraffe at her neck and pulled the hood up over her plaited hair.
There existed no ailment that could have fastened the greengrocer to his bed.
Jerry Aland, much more presentable now that he was combed and dressed, kept his eyes fastened on Wolfe.
He fastened the tails of the albacore together, hoisted the burden of more than two hundredweight to one shoulder, and led the way up the steep path.
I fell in her arms, our lips fastened together, and, in a voluptuous, ardent pressure, we enjoyed an amorous exhaustion not sufficient to allay our desires, but delightful enough to deceive them for the moment.
She had not strength to repulse the hand which I pressed amorously upon her heart, and becoming bolder I fastened my burning lips upon her languid mouth.
When the nooses had been fastened to the crosspiece the angareb was pulled away and the victims were left swinging and kicking in the air.
Then he opened his blanket and I perceived that fastened about him by a loop of hide in such a fashion that it could be drawn out in a moment, was the blade of a broad assegai, the shaft of which was shortened to about six inches.
The guilty wretch was fastened to two trees forcibly drawn towards each other, and his limbs were torn asunder by their sudden separation.
Then he fastened a head martingale on, and buckled it to the girths atwixt his fore legs.
Rohain tucked the feather inside a tapestry aulmoniere, fastened with buttons of jet.
Tad and Bap helped him into it, and fastened to his belt the tools he would need and the film packs for the cameras he would be activating.
At last the chevochic was tired out, and taking the horse back to the stable he fastened up his head once more, and to my astonishment it began to devour its provender with the greatest appetite.
Therewere always loose backs to be fastened on securely, notes to be erased from margins, pages to be mended, labels to belettered and affixed.