tight head

noun

rugby the prop on the hooker's right in the front row of a scrum Compare loose head

A tight head, too, is most necessary, without which the operator will get a side-to-side sway upon the picture.

The ice is like the tight head of a big bass drum, but the drummer is inside and the sound comes muffled.

If it is absurd then it is leadish and nearly set in where there is a tight head.

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