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Fast
·v Tenacious; retentive. II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. III. Fast ·v ...

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Fast
The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26...

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fast
A rope, cablet, or chain by which a vessel is secured to a wharf; and termed bow, head, breast, quar...

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Hold
·noun Binding power and influence. II. Hold ·noun The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. ...

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Hold
A fortress, the name given to David's lurking-places (1 Sam. 22:4, 5; 24:22). ...

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hold
a place where people stay to chat in when they are sent on an errand ; a loitering place. N. ...

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hold
The whole interior cavity of a ship, or all that part comprehended between the floor and the lower d...

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Fast-handed
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...

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boat-fast
See painter. ...

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bow-fast
A rope or chain for securing a vessel by the bow. (See fast.) ...

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breast-fast
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...

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fast aground
Immovable, or high and dry. ...

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fast sailer
A ship which, in nautical parlance, "has legs." ...

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fast staying
Quick in going about. ...

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head-fast
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...

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lock-fast
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...

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make fast
A word generally used for tying or securing ropes. To fasten. ...

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quarter-fast
See fast. ...

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shore-fast
A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore. ...

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steady-fast
A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation f...

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stern-fast
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...

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Anchor-hold
·noun Hence: Firm hold: security. II. Anchor-hold ·noun The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to w...

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Strangle hold
·add. ·- In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. ...

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Toe hold
·add. ·- A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot. ...

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petticoat hold
One who has an estate during his wife's life, called the apron-string hold. ...

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to hold forth
To harangue; to speak in public.--Todd's Johnson. A petty corjuror telling fortunes, held forth in ...

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to hold on
To wait; stop. 'Hold on a minute;' originally a sea phrase. ...

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to hold up
In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining. Though nice and dark the p...

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anchor-hold
The fastness of the flukes on the ground; also the act of having cast anchor, and taken the ground. ...

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fore-hold
The part of the hold before the fore hatchway. ...

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hold-all
A portable case for holding small articles required by soldiers, marines, and small-arm men on servi...

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hold-beams
The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. In a man-of-war they support the orlop-deck. (See orlop-...

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hold off
The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan. ...

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hold on
keep all you have got in pulling a rope. ♦ Hold on a minute. Wait or stop. ♦ Hold on with your n...

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hold-stanchions
Those which support the hold-beams amidships, and rest on the kelson. ...

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lower-hold
The space for cargo in a merchant-vessel, fitted with 'tween-decks. ...

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main-hold
That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct. ...

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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore. ...

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apron string hold
An estate held by a man during his wife's life. ...

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depth of hold
The height between the floor and the lower-deck; it is therefore one of the principal dimensions giv...

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hold up, to
In meteorological parlance, for the weather to clear up after a gale; to stop raining. ...

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lower-hold-beams
The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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captain of the hold
The last of the captains in rank, as a first-class petty officer. ...

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height of the hold
Used for the depth of the hold. ...

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hold on, good sticks!
An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...

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pillar of the hold
A main stanchion with notches for descent. ...

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trim of the hold
The arrangement of the cargo, &c., by which a vessel carries sail well, and becomes under control as...

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hold a good wind, to
To have weatherly qualities. ...

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keep a good hold of the land
Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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