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fastener

[ fas-uh-ner, fah-suh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of various devices for fastening. fastening.
any of various devices, as a snap or hook and eye, for holding together two objects or parts sometimes required to be separate, as two edges or flaps of a piece of clothing.
a worker who fastens things together.

First recorded in 1620–30; fasten + -er ¹

Midwest Fastener Corp Michigan-based company that supplies fasteners to the hardware store, home center, and industrial markets.

Fasten the sheets together at the top left hand corner with a paper fastener, the pointed ends of the fastener being at the top.

It paused before the door, and in another instant a wary hand was at work upon the fastener.

A snap fastener will hold the flap over the tools so they won't fall out.

Its double-tongued fastener was twisted far awry, as if it had been wrenched away by violence.

His dinner is his best devotion; he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef, and sweats at it more than at his labor.

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