A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to make fast a boat.
To buoy a cable is to make fast a spar, cask, or the like, to the bight of the cable, in order to prevent its galling or rubbing on the bottom.
Passing Cape Collinson we were again obliged tomake fast to a large floe, as all the leads to the northward had closed up, thereby preventing farther progress.
We succeeded this morning in pushing on for three or four miles, when, being completely stopped by the ice, we were again compelled to make fast.
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
Defn: To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams.
Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
Don't make fast over an old set of turns when you shorten hawse.
This should be doubly strong, as it is frequently used to tow or make fast to.
Every boat should carry two anchors, and every boat that cannot readily make fast to a dock, three.
When the hawser has a lead that enters the water well ahead, make fast, and watch how she rides to it.
Are you going to make fast to the gunboat and tow her in?
We are going to make fast a tow-rope to the gunboat's stern.
The ears, the nose, and the eyes are the accessible sensitive parts, and, the eyes being out of the question, remain the nose and the ears as the parts to which to make fast.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "make fast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
