A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation for making sail from a fast.
·noun Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. II. Steady ·vi To become...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The order given to the steersman, in a fair wind, to steer the ship on her course without deviating;...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·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...
A fresh breeze pretty uniform in force and direction. ...
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...
See painter. ...
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 rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c. ...
An uncertain and shuffling conduct. ...
Said of a ship on shore. ...
·add. ·- Connecticut; — a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by t...