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Fasten vs Snipebill - What's the difference?

fasten | snipebill |

As nouns the difference between fasten and snipebill

is that fasten is while snipebill is a plane for cutting deep grooves in mouldings.

fasten

English

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

    Related terms

    * bedfast * breastfast * colorfast * cragfast * fast * fastening * handfast * headfast * holdfast * makefast * sitfast * shamefast * soothfast * steadfast

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    snipebill

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plane for cutting deep grooves in mouldings.
  • (US, dialect) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
    • (Webster 1913)