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A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.

A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.

A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.

To fasten with breeching.

ranches united at one end. -- Knee breeches, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. -- To wear the breeches, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

sually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.

A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.

A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.

To fasten with a cable.

Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.

Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

-- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

-- Carrier shell (Zoöl.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. -- Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.

ial before it is loosened is estimated to be a cart load. -- Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope. -- To put (or get or set) the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

nine tails, an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fi…

To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.