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Etymology

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From tight +‎ -er.

Adjective

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tighter

  1. comparative form of tight: more tight

Adverb

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tighter

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

Noun

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tighter (plural tighters)

  1. (obsolete or colloquial) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.(Can we verify(+) this sense?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)