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What does the pirate word avast mean?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 8/19/2023

'Hold fast" or 'Stop' its an old nautical term/command first documented 1n 1681. Would have been used as an order to stop/halt an individual, or a ships company in what they were doing. It may well come from the Dutch luanguage 'Houa Vast'

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