tauted
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tauted
1775–85; taut (variant of dial. tate small tuft of wool, hair, or grass) + -ed 3
Example Sentences
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The tow-line tauted as the mules leaned forward in their collars, and once more the Bluebird was under way.
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 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
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.
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)
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
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