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hors, etc. -- Chain bolt (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chain attached for drawing it out of position. -- Chain bond. See Chain timber. -- Chain bridge, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. -- Chain cable, a cabl…

thing, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.

A pair of Straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.] Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever. Pope.

urs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

and. [Low] Clout nail, a kind of wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

hed to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

To fix; to fasten. [Obs.] Shak.

Act of fastening. [Obs.]

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism.…

To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.

Bound or fastened with cords.

A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts.

ht sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale. Boyle.