All 7 Uses
taut
in
Airborn, by Oppel
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- I saw the line quickly swing up and become taut.†
Chpt 1. *
- To survey the taut outer skin of the entire ship, every inch of it, inside and out, on land and aloft, to make sure the Aurora was in top sailing trim.†
Chpt 3.
- The propellers caught in our skin and kept cutting, through the taut fabric, through the gas cells inside.†
Chpt 6.
- Right now she felt level enough, but I could tell by the weight in my stomach and the tautness of my eardrums that we were slowly but surely losing height.†
Chpt 7.
- I could feel the pull of her through the taut line.†
Chpt 10.
- All those taut lines were moaning and wailing like an infernal stringed orchestra.†
Chpt 12.
- Her frame had been repaired, and her rudder, and she looked as taut and full and well fed as a blue whale.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)