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headfast, n. Naut.|ˈhɛdfɑːst, -æ-|
Also 7 -fest.
[f. head n.1 + fast n.2]
A rope or chain at the head of a vessel, to make her fast to a wharf, buoy, or other point.
c1569Hawkins 3rd Voy. (1878) 77 So leesing her hedfasts, and hayling away by the stearne fastes shee was gotten out. 1635Voy. Foxe & James to N.W. (Hakluyt Soc.) I. 146 They cut the head-fest from the sterne of their ship. 1724De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. I. 98 The Ships ride here..with their Head-fasts on Shore. 1837Colquhoun Comp. Oarsman's Guide 31 The painter is the rope attached to the stem to make fast by, and is otherwise called the headfast.
attrib.1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 349 A strong pull from a headfast rope might drag the erection completely over.
Hence ˈheadfast v. trans., to make fast with a headfast.
1889Daily News 9 Nov. 6/4 The point in the river at which the barge may be headfasted. |