tauted

Verb

taut (third-person singular simple present tauts, present participle tauting, simple past and past participle tauted)

1. (transitive) To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.
   • The machine is operated by a double friction drum hoist. From the rear drum a steel cable, called the tension cable, leads to a set of fall blocks attached to the mast pole. These blocks afford a means for slackening and tauting the track cable, one end of which is supported by the fall blocks and...1917 August, The Road-maker, volume 2, number 5, Port Huron, Mich.: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 18, column 2

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