taughten

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English toght (“stretched, strained, tight”)

Alternative forms

Verb

taughten (third-person singular simple present taughtens, present participle taughtening, simple past and past participle taughtened)

  1. (chiefly nautical) To tighten; increase in intensity; to become taught.
    • 1876, R.M. Ballantyne, Under the Waves; or, Diving in Deep Waters‎, Reprint edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2007:
      ... then, waiting for low tide, we could taughten the chains again, and repeat the process till we got her ashore.

Verb

taughten

  1. (nonstandard) past participle of teach
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