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To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. Shak.

To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.

the arms of a double crank. -- Crank shaft, a shaft bent into a crank, or having a crank fastened to it, by which it drives or is driven. -- Crank wheel, a wheel acting as a crank, or having a wrist to which a connecting rod is attached.

A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.

A withe for fastening a gate.

A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly,…

United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

urses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

To fix; to fasten; to establish. [Obs.] "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. And ever-living lamps depend in rows. Pope.

An old game or sport (revived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.