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▪ I. air-tight, a.|ˈɛətaɪt|
[air- 3.]
a. So tight as to be impermeable to air.
[Not in Todd 1818.]1760J. Ferguson Lect. vi. ii. 194 Push the open end of the glass tube through the collar of leathers..which it fits so as to be air-tight. 1833Brewster Nat. Magic. xiii. 345 Shut up in an air-tight breathing-box. 1857Emerson Poems 86 You captives of your air-tight halls, Wear out in-doors your sickly days.
b. fig. (As one word.) That cannot be faulted, incontrovertible. Cf. watertight a. 1 fig. U.S.
1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 236, I never found a nigger yet that didn't have an airtight alibi for whatever he did. 1955D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 145 Sometimes..there is an airtight arrangement under which the pickpockets who pay off are protected, while..those who do not may be arrested and framed. 1969J. A. McPherson in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 163 They took the seniority clause apart word by word, trying to figure a way to get at Doc. But they had it written airtight. 1978Sci. Amer. Aug. 15/1 He..eventually found a lengthy, complex proof for 294 and 1,028 that he believes is airtight. 1986R. Ford Sportswriter ix. 238 He hated everything I had ever liked and had airtight arguments for why they were laughable.
▪ II. air-tight, n. U.S.|ˈɛətaɪt|
[f. the adj.]
1. An air-tight stove.
1844‘Jonathan Slick’ High Life N.Y. ii. xxxi. 227 Speakin' of stoves, Par, I got..what they call an air-tight. 1909J. C. Lincoln Keziah Coffin i. 12 The stovepipe was attached to the ‘air-tight’ in the dining room.
2. An article of food put up in an air-tight vessel.
1897A. H. Lewis Wolfville 330 What's air-tights?.. Air-tights is can peaches, can tomatters, an' sim'lar bluffs. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights i. xvi. 219 On top of a few incidental pounds of chile con, baked beans, soda biscuits, ‘air tights’, and other delicacies.
Hence ˈair-ˌtightness.
1852D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 65 Pay the strictest attention to the air-tightness of the vats. |