What is "tightenings"

Usage examples of "tightenings".

Then we secured ourselves with final tightenings and claspings of our armor and Ganelon said, "Let us be about it.

Sag into sleep, still coupled, fall into sleep while still feeling in her depths the gentle residual claspings, small infrequent tightenings like that of a small sleeping hand when the brain dreams.

Then we secured ourselves with final tightenings and claspings of our armor and Ganelon said, “Let us be about it.

I was porpoising up and down so violently that all macdonald could be feeling anyway was a constant and irregular series of alternate tightenings and slackenings of the line.

The only sounds were those of the ship, the small, familiar stretchings and tightenings of seams and caulk.