intertie
English
Etymology
Noun
intertie (plural interties)
- (construction, architecture) In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
- (figurative) A bond or support.
Verb
intertie (third-person singular simple present interties, present participle intertying, simple past and past participle intertied)
- To interlink.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “intertie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)