tauted

American  

[tah-tid] / ˈtɑ tɪd /

adjective

Scot.

1. (especially of wood or hair) tangled or matted together.

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Etymology

Origin of tauted

1775–85; taut (variant of dial. tate small tuft of wool, hair, or grass) + -ed ³

Example Sentences

She was nae get o' moorland tips, Wi' tauted ket, an' hairy hips; For her forbears were brought in ships, Frae 'yont the Tweed.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

She tightened her arms until they ached, tauted the thin strips of muscle under her soft flesh, and with a mighty effort raised it and held it.

From Flappers and Philosophers by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

And not a second too soon, for, as he set his feet on the iron bottom, the cable tauted and the bucket started upward.

From Dick Hamilton's Fortune The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Garis, Howard R.

The animals leaned forward in their collars, the rope tauted, pulling with a swishing sound up from the water into which it had dropped.

From The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Hill, Grace Brooks

The slack was running out rapidly, and at last the line tauted with a jerk on the sleeper's leg.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson