fasten
/ˈfæsn̩/ verb B1- To attach or connect in a secure manner. · The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.· Fasten your seat belts!
- To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land. · to fasten a blow
He/she/it fastens · Past fastened · Past participle fastened · -ing form fastening
Verb forms
- Base form
- fasten
- He/she/it
- fastens
- Past
- fastened
- Past participle
- fastened
- -ing form
- fastening
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I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone.
Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.
But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
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