avast

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Come bing avast, my merry pals; to the green, to the green: a Turpin!

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  1. interjection Nautical Used as a command to stop or desist.

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  • Spurn this upstart with a Victorian avast-ye-Satan? —  Paid and Loving Eyes - Lovejoy - Jonathan Gash
  • The answer turned out to be "avast," revealing the wickedness of the puzzle maker because the clue and the answer don't exactly match.
  • New version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. —  Fulldls.com
  • Is there any way to use the KeyGen for the Windows Home Server version of avast? —  Mininova
  • So, avast, ye lubbers, start talkin 'like a pirate. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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  1. From Middle Dutch hou vast, hold fast : hou, houd, imperative of houden, to hold + vast, fast; see past- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Prob. from Dutch hou' vast, houd vast = English hold fast, i. e., hold on, wait a while. Cf. Dutch houvast = English holdfast, a crampiron.
 

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