Definition of "fasten"

fasten

/ˈfɑːsən/

verb
third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened
1. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.
  Quotations
  The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
  May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
2. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
  Quotations
  if I can fasten but one cup upon him
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii]