[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taut \taut\, a. dan. taet; akin to e. tight. see tight.
   1. naut. tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a
      rope that is tightly strained.
      1913 webster

   2. snug; close; firm; secure.
      1913 webster

   taut hand naut., a sailor's term for an officer who is
      severe in discipline.
      1913 webster
see also:
tight taut hand 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

taut
     adj 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
see also:
tight drawn 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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