A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship, as the head-fast confines her forward, and the stern-fast abaft.
·noun The front of a furnace. II. Breast ·noun The face of a coal working. III. Breast ·noun A <<T...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·v Tenacious; retentive. II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. III. Fast ·v ...
The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A rope, cablet, or chain by which a vessel is secured to a wharf; and termed bow, head, breast, quar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...
·adj High as the breast. ...
·add. ·- Abscess of the mammary gland. ...
·noun The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; — commonly applied...
He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
To run abeam of a cape or object. To cut through a sea, the surface of which is poetically termed br...
They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...
Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...
An old term for bunt-gaskets. ...
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...
A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions, which terminates the quarter-deck and poop ...
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...
See painter. ...
A rope or chain for securing a vessel by the bow. (See fast.) ...
Immovable, or high and dry. ...
A ship which, in nautical parlance, "has legs." ...
Quick in going about. ...
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...
A word generally used for tying or securing ropes. To fasten. ...
See fast. ...
A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore. ...
A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation f...
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...
An uncertain and shuffling conduct. ...
Said of a ship on shore. ...
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...