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fasten | wo |

As a noun fasten

is .

As a preposition wo is

(lb) by.

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

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    * * English ergative verbs ----

    wo

    English

    (wikipedia wo)

    Alternative forms

    * whoa

    Etymology 1

    Variant of who .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

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