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tauts

tauts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of taut.

Meaning of taut

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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Questions about tauts

What is tauts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tauts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of taut.

Words near tauts in the dictionary

  1. tautophrases
  2. tautosyllabic
  3. tautosyllabically
  4. tautozonal
  5. tautozonality
  6. tauts
  7. tauyu bak
  8. Tauzin
  9. Tauzins
  10. tav
  11. tava

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