The phrase "a tieback" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to fashion, hair styling, or construction, referring to a method of securing or holding something back.
Example: "She wore her hair in a sleek ponytail with a tieback that matched her outfit."
Alternatives: "a hair tie" or "a fastening strap".
Last week, as a crew from Berkel & Company Contractors installed a tieback near where the Marriott World Trade Center once stood, they hit a buried piece of steel, 50 feet down into the soil and 29 feet into the bedrock, just one foot short of their goal.
How would that gold braid look as a tieback?
Like the hold back, a tieback can be invisible when not in use.
You may also like to attach a curtain tieback hook on a wall or area for ease of pulling the curtain back to one side if needed.
Investigators believe a bolt attached to a metal tieback gave way on Monday night, causing the panels to fall and kill Milena Del Valle, 38, a restaurant worker from the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
Whether it's a Cesar Chavez tieback that lights your fire, an emotional appeal to your love for your mom, or a quick and cheerful gag; we're all being summoned to attention, somehow.
On my desk is a stack of mismatched bed linens, a pair of curtain tiebacks, a lobster pot and tax records from 1993.
The old tiebacks, a replay of the bathtub's original construction in 1967 and 1968, were removed once the basement floors were built.
Several fixed platforms and a few floaters are long on their decline curve and are expected to be decommissioned within the next few years unless tieback opportunities materialize or an alternative use for the structure is found.
There the tieback cables can be anchored like guylines around a tent.
Especially hard has been the placement of tieback tendons — gleaming new anchors similar to the rusty tiebacks that supported the trade center slurry wall bathtub when the towers fell, withstanding the equivalent of an earthquake of 2.3 magnitude.
