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Fast
·v Tenacious; retentive.
II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
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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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Handed
·adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
II. Handed ·adj Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
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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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stern-fast
A rope used to confine the stern of a vessel to a wharf, &c.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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Free-handed
·adj Open-handed; liberal.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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High-handed
·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
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Horny-handed
·adj Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
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Large-handed
·adj Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
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Left-handed
·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
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Light-handed
·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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Lily-handed
·adj Having white, delicate hands.
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Open-handed
·adj Generous; liberal; munificent.
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Red-handed
(·adj / ·adv) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands;
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Single-handed
·adj Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
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Sinister-handed
·adj Left-handed; hence, unlucky.
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Strait-handed
·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
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Three-handed
·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...
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Two-handed
·adj Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword.
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Wing-handed
·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
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Left-handed
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; an...
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caw-handed, or caw-pawed
Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
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two-handed
Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
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cooche-handed
left-handed. Devon.
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light-handed
Short of the complement of men.
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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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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left-handed wife
A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...
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two handed put
The amorous congress.
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two-handed fellows
Those who are both seamen and soldiers, or artificers; as the marines and, specially, marine artille...
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two-handed saw
A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...
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