fastener

[fas-uh-ner, fah-suh-]

noun

1. any of various devices for fastening. fastening.

2. any of various devices, as a snap or hook and eye, for holding together two objects or parts sometimes required to be separate, as two edges or flaps of a piece of clothing.

3. a worker who fastens things together.

Other Word Forms

• unfastener noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fastener¹

First recorded in 1620–30; fasten + -er ¹

Related Words

• latch 
• screw