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Definition of Avast
1. interj. Cease; stop; stay.
Definition of Avast
1. Interjection. (nautical) hold fast!; desist!; stay!. ¹
2. Interjection. (context: parody of pirate slang) listen!; pay attention!. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avast
1. used as a command to stop [interj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avast
Literary usage of Avast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"avast heaving a minute, Tom, and we'll light our pipes and gather round and ...
An old Yorkshire song says— " But Tom got the best of this bargain avast, ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"... however, that the phenomena of this basin are as well, and even better,
explained by the action of diluvian currents than by that of avast glacier. ..."
3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"... Ocean" avast extent of sea measuring from north to south something like 1400
miles and from east to west in its widest part something like 1000 miles? ..."
4. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"great world change its positions and aspects as frequently as these coppers change
their positions and their aspects. " Let" it; what then 1 Why not ? avast ..."
5. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"... stow the yards, aud bouse everything tight, * And under reefed foresail we'll
scud. avast! nor don't think me a milksop so soft To be taken ..."
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