A Brest-fast.
Is a Roape which is fastned to some part of the ship fore-ward-on, and so doth hold fast the ships head to a wharffe or any thing else, and a sterne fast is the same for the sterne.
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Is a Roape which is fastned to some part of the ship fore-ward-on, and so doth hold fast the ships head to a wharffe or any thing else, and a sterne fast is the same for the sterne.