FromMiddle Englishtoght(“stretched, strained, tight”).
taughten (third-person singular simple presenttaughtens,present participletaughtening,simple past and past participletaughtened)
- (chiefly nautical) Totighten; increase in intensity; to becometaught.
1876, R.M. Ballantyne,Under the Waves; or, Diving in Deep Waters[1], Reprint edition, Gutenberg Project, published2007:[…] then, waiting for low tide, we couldtaughten the chains again, and repeat the process till we got her ashore.
(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.) Equivalent totaught +-en.
taughten
- (nonstandard)pastparticiple ofteach(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
