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"Cease!" on the seas
Answer for the clue ""Cease!" on the seas ", 5 letters:
avast
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avast \A*vast"\ ([.a]*v[.a]st"), interj. [Corrupted from D. houd vast hold fast. See Hold , v. t., and Fast , a.] (Naut.) Cease; stop; stay. ``Avast heaving.'' --Totten.
Usage examples of avast.
It was avast butchery, 623,000 dead on both sides, and 471,000 wounded, over a million dead and wounded in a country whose population was 30 million.