Also Sc. 6 teicht, 7 ticht. [f. TIGHT a.] trans. To make tight, in various senses, † a. To make (a vessel) water-tight. Obs. † b. To stretch, tighten, brace; to draw tight, compress. Obs. c. (also refl.) To put in order, make tidy or neat. dial. Hence Tighted ppl. a.
1532. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 156. For boyingis and teichtein of the xij barrellis of aill forsaidis.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xvii. (1887), 76. Wrastling … tightes the sinews.
1587. J. Melvill, Diary (Wodrow Soc.), 255. His lessone was a tichted upe abregment of all he haid tetched the yeir bypast.
1611. Cotgr., Goudronner … to pitch, trimme, or tight a ship.
1661. Sc. Acts Chas. II. (1820), VII. 230/2. The said barrells to be well tichted and double girthed before the transporting thairof.
1775. S. J. Pratt, Liberal Opin., lxxxvi. (1783), III. 138. Mr. Benjamin … had so spruced and tighted himself up, that he really looked quite interesting.
1895. Gloss. E. Anglia, s.v., 3. = Tidy. ‘Tight yourself up.’
