Lexicographical Neighbors of Headfasts
Literary usage of Headfasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Thirteen Original Narratives by Richard Hakluyt (1880)
"... in the time of the suspicion we had, which was only one half-hour, the Minion
was made ready to avoid, and so loosing her headfasts, and hauling away by ..."
2. Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence by Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Henry Buckler (1840)
"I know this rope—it was used as headfasts to Mr. Wright's barges—here is some of
my splicing on them—they were fastened to the barges, and must have been ..."
3. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"... the headfasts, and other fasts belonging to such ships, vessels, and craft,
and fraudulently carry away the same; likewise encourage such seamen and ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1829)
"... which rise and fall with the fluctuation Qf the water, so that there is no
occasion for loosening or tightening the headfasts of the vessels. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an by Patrick Colquhoun (1800)
"... or damage any Cordage, Cables, Buoys, Buoy-ropes, or headfasts, fixed to
Anchors or Moorings in the River Thames, with an intent to steal the same; ..."
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