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English
Etymology
French autant (“as much (as possible)”).
Adjective
a taunto (not comparable)
- (nautical) Of a ship, especially a tall square-rigged one: in which all running rigging is hauled taut; having all spars hoisted aloft; having all sails set.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:She was a noble vessel. Trim, ship-shape, all a taunto, as Captain Swosser used to say. You must excuse me if I occasionally introduce a nautical expression; I was quite a sailor once.
- Prepared, ready, fit.
1836, John Thomas Haines, The Ocean Life, act I, scene 1:No need of side-ropes, lads, for these marble companions. My eyes! here's a cabin all a taunto.