English to English

noun (n)

• restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place(noun.artifact)

  Synonym:
  fastener, fastening, fixing
  

  source: wordnet30
• Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long flat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.(noun)

  source: webster1913