safety
/ˈseɪfti/ verb C2- To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
- to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
He/she/it safeties · Past safetied · Past participle safetied · -ing form safetying
Verb forms
- Base form
- safety
- He/she/it
- safeties
- Past
- safetied
- Past participle
- safetied
- -ing form
- safetying
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While I for safety march ahead,
The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need.
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