Verb

(en verb)

To attach or connect in a secure manner.

The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.

Fasten your seatbelts!

Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?

* Jonathan Swift

The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

to fasten a blow

* Shakespeare

if I can fasten but one cup upon him

Verb

(en verb)

To fasten with buttons again.

*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 11, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=When a Great-Grandmother Goes Bad, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Ms. Osborne notes that in Edwardian London adulterous affairs tended to be conducted between the hours of five and seven (known as a “cinq à sept”) because it took women lots of time in those days to unbutton and unlace their layers of corsets, chemises and underskirts, let alone relace and rebutton them up afterward, so lovers scheduled their visits for just after tea when “ladies were undressing in order to exchange their afternoon clothes for their evening ones.” }}