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Taut   /tɔt/   Listen
adjective
Taut  adj.  
1.
(Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
2.
Snug; close; firm; secure.
Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Taut" Quotes from Famous Books



... of bravado he had taken too little account of his attire. He recalled it now, for the frosty gray eyes of Juliana ran about him and came to rest upon his own eyes. For the taut moment that he braved her glance it unaccountably seemed to him that the forbidding mouth of the woman twitched nervously into the beginning of a smile. It was a fleeting effect, but it did seem as if she had ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... his gas-mask the lean lines of his jaw went taut. Tense, steely fingers flipped to the knobbed control instruments; the gleaming single-seater scout plane catapulted in a screaming somersault. Lance's ever-wary sixth sense told him the tongues of disintegrating flame had licked the plane's protected ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various
... but a moving shadow intermingled with points of fire that glowed steadily in two long rows up to the altar, where fell a single ray of golden sunshine. Helmet in hand, he moved slowly forward, every nerve strung taut with suspense. As his eyes grew accustomed to the curious half-light, he saw that the unreal shadows were men grouped on either side behind rows of torch-bearers. The red flare fell on their fixed, unmoved faces, and threw weird shadows ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie
... bodies shone again like tinted ivory. Then the heralds conducted the trio to the southern end farthest from the tents. The two junior presidents left their pulpit and took post at either end of a line marked on the sand. Each held the end of a taut rope. The contestants drew lots from an urn for the place nearest the lower turning goal,—no trifling advantage. A favouring god gave Moerocles the first; Lycon was second; Glaucon only third. As the three crouched ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... far from the city. It was the heat of a blistering Sunday and not a team or a pedestrian was astir. Ahead, for a mile, for miles perhaps, as far as they could see, not an animate dot marred the surface of the taut, stretched, yellow-white ribbon. ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge


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