A rope, cablet, or chain by which a vessel is secured to a wharf; and termed bow, head, breast, quarter, or stern fasts, as the case may be.
·v Tenacious; retentive. II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. III. Fast ·v ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...
See painter. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A rope or chain for securing a vessel by the bow. (See fast.) ...
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...
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. ...