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Definition of Headfast
1. Noun. A mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf.
Definition of Headfast
1. a mooring rope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headfast
Literary usage of Headfast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Life-boat, and Its Work by Richard Lewis (1874)
"The boat had reached the wreck, and was lying alongside, with her head to the
eastward, having a rope fast to the quarter, but the headfast not properly ..."
2. Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence by Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Henry Buckler (1837)
"... the prisoner before—I knew him when I saw him there. JAMES JONES. I am lighterman
to Mr. Walter Frederick Wingrove. This rope is a headfast—I believe it ..."
3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"... spoil, or destroy, any cordage, cable, buoys, buoy-rope, headfast, or other
fast, fixed to any anchor or moorings, belonging to any ship, vessel, boat, ..."
4. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"... or headfast, that is a large cable for fastening a ship to a wharf or another
ship. In Portuguese proiz is a stone or tree on shore to which the hawsers ..."
5. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"13. it is further enacted, That if any person or persons shall cut, damage or
spoil any " cordage, cable, buoys, buoy rope, headfast, or other fast, ..."
6. Introduction to American Law: Designed as a First Book for Students by Timothy Walker (1887)
"Maliciously cutting or destroying any cordage, cable, buoy, buoy-rope, headfast,
or other fastening of any vessel, boat, or raft — same punishment as above. ..."
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