Translation for '
to fasten sth' from English to Icelandic
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- It is convention in some places to fasten the main halyard (for the mainsail) on the starboard side of the mast and the jib halyard to the port side.
- There were holes in the footstock for leather straps to fasten it to the foot.
- Early Egyptians also knew how to assemble planks of wood with treenails to fasten them together, using pitch for caulking the seams.
- Friction buckles are used to fasten institutional jackets with webbing or cloth straps because they are difficult to open without a free pair of hands.
- In case of a fire, this was the procedure used: Someone ran to ring the fire bell while everyone else near the fire ran to the hose cart to fasten the hose to the nearest hydrant.
- Iron was afterwards introduced for the construction of anchors, and an improvement was made by forming them with teeth, or "flukes", to fasten themselves into the bottom.
- Pavements extend from the ziggurat in a cruciform shape with square-like large bricks, in which pieces of pottery are used to fasten the clay together.
- They usually wear a gold brooch ("tasni") that is made by local jewellers in different shapes and sizes and is used to fasten the two parts of the dress together over the chest.
- Some families, though, notably the Loricariidae and Astroblepidae, have a suckermouth that allows them to fasten themselves to objects in fast-moving water.
- , meaning "to crucify" or "to fasten to a cross".
- The bowline is commonly used in sailing small craft, for example to fasten a halyard to the head of a sail or to tie a jib sheet to a clew of a jib.
- Elaborate brooches, essentially the same as those worn by important laypeople, appear to have been worn by monastic clergy to fasten vestments of the period.
- The pitch was used to fasten arrowheads and coat fishing and whaling instruments.
- The upper part was the spearhead proper, and a lower part, which used a tube to hold up the end of a wooden shaft. To fasten the shaft to the spearhead, nails were driven through a hole in the shaft.
- is a decorative jewelry item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together.
- Brazing is widely used in the tool industry to fasten "hard metal" (carbide, ceramics, cermet, and similar) tips to tools such as saw blades.
- Buttons appeared as a means to close cuffs in the Byzantine Empire and to fasten the necks of Egyptian tunics by no later than the 5th century AD.
- Variations on this include that he forgot to fasten the lower button when dressing and this was copied.
- When the caterpillar is fully grown, it makes a button of silk which it uses to fasten its body to a leaf or a twig.
- When there is more than one functional buttonhole (as in a traditional six-on-two arrangement), only one button need be fastened; the wearer may elect to fasten only the bottom button, in order to present a longer line (a style popularised by Prince George, Duke of Kent).
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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