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Bellow from Bligh
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avast
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, a nautical interjection, "hold! stop!" probably worn down from Dutch houd vast "hold fast."\n\nAVAST. -- The order to stop, or pause, in any exercise or operation; as Avast heaving -- that is to say, desist, or stop, from drawing in the cable or ...
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.