Noun. 1. tie-in-a fastener that serves to join or connect; the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction. linkup, link, tie. nosepiece, bridge-the link between two lenses; rests on the nose.
Curtilage. The area, usually enclosed, encompassing the grounds and buildings immediately surrounding a home that is used in the daily activities of domestic life. A garage, barn, smokehouse, chicken house, and garden are curtilage if their locations are reasonably near to the home.
curtail â(third-person singular simple present curtails, present participle curtailing, simple past and past participle curtailed) ( 1 transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair. ( 2 transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.