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stern-fast Naut.
[f. stern n.3 + fast n.2]
A rope by which a vessel's stern is moored.
c1569[see headfast]. 1627Capt. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 A Brest-fast is a rope which is fastened to some part of the Ship forward on, to hold her head to a wharfe or any thing, and a Sterne-fast is the same in the Sterne. 1797S. James Narr. Voy. 131 The man..at the time the painter broke, called for another rope, or sternfast. 1835Marryat Olla Podr. iii, The stern-fast was thrown on the quay. 1911Contemp. Rev. Mar. 283 The boats are either jambed up against her up-stream side or tailing off from their painters and stern-fasts on the down. |