tighter

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English

Etymology

From tight +‎ -er.

Adjective

tighter

  1. comparative form of tight: more tight

Adverb

tighter

  1. comparative form of tight: more tight
    We need to pull that rope tighter.

Noun

tighter (plural tighters)

  1. (obsolete or colloquial) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tighter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)