tightener

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tightener englanniksi

  1. Something used to tighten.

  2. A large meal; a feast or blowout.

  3. 184?, Henry Mayhew, ''London Labour and the London Poor''

  4. One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; (..)
  5. {{quote-text|en|year=1876|author=William Green; Charles Hindley|title=The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack|page=55