Meaning of make fast | Babel Free

Definitions

To tie reliably.

Examples

“I pulled back, made fast again to the jetty, and then went to sleep at last.”

“It is a well-known fact that an immense proportion of boat accidents would never happen if people held the sheet in their hands instead of making it fast; and yet, unless it be some martinet of a professional mariner or some landsman with shattered nerves, every one of God's creatures makes it fast.”

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