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Look at that--and that Bertie pointed to a well-fattened, tender morsel, in such haste to be off that it was hanging over the very edge of the flooring, and to another whose thick-set body was fast disappearing between the boards That is what I call a tight squeeze.

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  1. adjective Fixed or fastened firmly in place: a tight lid; tight screws; a tight knot.
  2. adjective Stretched or drawn out fully: a tight wire; a tight drumhead.
  3. adjective Of such close construction as to be impermeable: cloth tight enough to hold water; warm in our tight little cabin.

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thin ·  stiff ·  loose ·  hard ·  neat

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tight:   tighter ·  tightest
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  1. Middle English, dense, of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from Middle English tight, tiht, tiʒt (also rarely toght, later English taught, taut), a variant (with initial t for th due to assimilation with the final t, perhaps after the Swedish Danish forms) of *thight, thiht, later English dial. thite, properly spelled thight, also theat (after Icelandic thēttr?), from Anglo-Saxon *thīht (not found) = Middle Dutch dight, Dutch digt = MHO. dīhte, German dicht, dial. deicht, thick, solid, dense, = Icelandic thēttr = Swedish tät = Danish tæt = Gothic (Moesogothic) *theihts (not recorded), tight, close, compact; apparently with orig. past participle suffix -t (as in light, a.); perhaps akin to thick.
  2. from Middle English tighten = Swedish täta = Danish tætte, make tight; from the adjective
 

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