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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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Stern
·noun The black tern. II. Stern ·vt The hinder part of anything. III. Stern ·vt Fig.: The post of ...

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stern
The after-part of a ship, ending in the taffarel above and the counters below. ♦ By the stern. The...

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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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hold-fast
A rope; also the order to the people aloft, when shaking out reefs, &c., to suspend the operation. I...

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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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Pink stern
·- ·see <<Chebacco>>, and 1st Pink. ...

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Stern-wheel
·adj Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer. ...

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Stern-wheeler
·noun A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. ...

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Torpedo stern
·add. ·- A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast powe...

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Tunnel stern
·add. ·- A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed i...

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pink-stern
(French, pinque.) A vessel with a narrow stern; hence all vessels so formed are called pink-sterned....

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chase-stern
The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...

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false stern
An additional stern fixed on the main one, to increase the length and improve the appearance of a ve...

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lute-stern
Synonymous with pink-stern. ...

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round stern
The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...

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segmental stern
See round stern. ...

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stern-all
A term amongst whalers, meaning to pull the boat stern foremost, to back off after having entered an...

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stern-board
This term is familiarly known to seamen as tacking by misadventure in stays; or purposely, as a seam...

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stern-chasers
The guns which fire directly aft. ...

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stern-davits
Pieces of iron or timber projecting from the stern, with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, for ...

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stern-frame
That strong and ornamental union based on the stern-post, transom, and fashion-pieces. ...

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stern-knee
Synonymous with stern-son (which see). ...

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stern-ladder
Made of ropes with wooden steps, for getting in and out of the boats astern. ...

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stern-ports
The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...

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stern-post
The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder. In steam-ships, where a...

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stern-sheets
That part of a boat between the stern and the aftmost thwart, furnished with seats for passengers. ...

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stern-son
A knee-piece of oak-timber, worked on the after dead-wood; the fore-end is scarphed into the kelson,...

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stern-walk
The old galleries formerly used to line-of-battle ships. ...

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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way. ...

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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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by the stern
When the ship draws more water abaft than forward. (See by the head.) ...

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false stern-post
A piece bolted to the after-edge of the main stern-post to improve steerage, and protect it should t...

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inner stern-post
See inner post ...

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long stern-timbers
See stern-timbers. ...

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make stern-way, to
To retreat, or move stern foremost. ...

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rails of the stern
(See stern-rails.) ...

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