fasten up

English

Verb

fasten up (third-person singular simple present fastens up, present participle fastening up, simple past and past participle fastened up)

1. (transitive) To fasten or attach
   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:

     If you want to turn around, then turn around, but I shan't fasten you up.