fasten : Idioms & Phrases
copper-fastened
Cop"per-fas`tened adjective
Definitions
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a .copper-fastened ship
Webster 1913
fasten on
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verb adopt
hook on; take up; seize on; latch on.
- take up new ideas
WordNet
To fasten a charge , ∨ a crime , upon
- to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed.
Webster 1913
To fasten one's eyes upon
- to look upon steadily without cessation. Acts iii. 4.
