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Holdfast   /hˈoʊlfˌæst/   Listen
Holdfast

noun
1.
Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place.  Synonyms: fastener, fastening, fixing.






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"Holdfast" Quotes from Famous Books



... Panky may even have deluded himself with the hope that when it came to a pinch the Germans had deemed it best to give up their desperate intention of defending the ford to the last gasp. Josh knew better, because he understood the holdfast nature of the Teutons better than did his chums. And he was mentally figuring on just when the bitter blast would break forth that was going to mow down those valiant men with the red trousers and the blue tunics rushing pell-mell ...
— The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line - Or, With the Allies in France • Ralph Marlow

... there, as the force of the wind or the flow of the current may carry them. If my life is to be steadied, there must not only be a strong hand at the tiller, but some outward object which shall be for me the point of aim and the point of rest. No man can steady his life except by clinging to a holdfast without himself. Some of us look for that stay in the fluctuations and fleetingnesses of creatures; and some of us are wiser and saner, and look for it in the steadfastness of the unchanging God. The ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Holdfast" :   clip, slide fastener, sealing wax, toggle bolt, cottar, locker, fastener, link, clinch, cleat, clothespin, screw, clasp, nail, grummet, corrugated fastener, pin, snap fastener, snap, nut and bolt, fixing, lock, joggle, toggle, restraint, grommet, dowel, karabiner, eyelet, hook and eye, cotter, wiggle nail, lashing, constraint, clothes peg, fillet, press stud, catch, zipper, tie, snap ring, paper fastener, clothes pin, loop, buckle, tie-in, bellyband, seal, stopping, hold fast, carabiner, zip, cringle, linkup, knot, dowel pin, zip fastener, button



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