taughten

verb

taughten

verb

Etymology Inherited from Middle English toght (“stretched, strained, tight”).

1

Nautical, Transport To tighten; increase in intensity; to become taught.

[…] then, waiting for low tide, we could taughten the chains again, and repeat the process till we got her ashore.1876, R.M. Ballantyne, Under the Waves; or, Diving in Deep Waters, Reprint edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2007:

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