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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Taut \Taut\, adjective [Dan. t[ae]t; akin to E. tight. See {Tight}.]
1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
2. Snug; close; firm; secure.
{Taut hand} (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
taut
adjective
1: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: {tight}]
2: subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" [syn: {drawn}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "taut": all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge-free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed-up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, orderly, pokerlike, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, quivering, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, shipshape, smart, spruce, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, tense, tidy, tight, trig, trim, under a strain, unrelaxed, uptight, virgate, with bated breath, with muscles tense
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