Meanings of tie-down in English

Nellie Slater had never patched a quilt nor even made a tie-down.

A teenage boy wearing flip-flops hops between them, securing the tie-down rope.

A hexagonal web of cables and slings allows for purchase, movement, and tie-down.

He tore more strips from his jacket and made a tie-down.

I was wondering if you had a tie-down I could borrow.

The tie-down coincided with the need for the prison to manage its own resourcing.

The bed of the semi bristles with tie-down eyelets.

Control questions, tie-down questions, and embedded commands-that'show a good salesman coaxes you to open up.

Nylon tie-down straps held its rotors in place, although they rocked slightly in the night air.

All were held by tie-down straps and ratchets.

That included an Auckland Prison inmate who was secured to a tie-down bed for a total 600 hours.

He said the prisoner was highly manipulative and it was lawful to use a tie-down beds restraints in difficult circumstances.

Prisoners were already likely to be highly distressed by the time they were placed in a tie-down bed, he said.

There's lots more comes after that: embedded commands, objection bridging, hot buttons, tie-down and add-on questions, control questions...you name it.

Marriage to me appeared the most horribly tied-down and unfair-to-women existence going.

Further variety can be obtained by a contrast in colour in the tying-down threads.