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fastening

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fastening [¦fas·niŋ]
(design engineering)
A spike, bolt, nut, or other device to connect rails to ties.
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Raskolnikov gazed in horror at the hook shaking in its fastening, and in blank terror expected every minute that the fastening would be pulled out.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Then he drove away twelve heifers and a hundred cows never yoked, and the bull who mounted the cows, fastening to the tail of each one brushwood to wipe out the footmarks of the cows.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
She stood with her hand on the fastening of the gate, and looked steadily at them, with an expression that hardly attained to interest, but did not descend to curiosity.
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