Crossword clues for avast
avast
- Pirate shout
- Nautical warning
- Nautical ''Halt!''
- How a salt says halt
- Halt, at sea
- Gob stopper?
- Cry from Captain Ahab
- Cease, to Popeye
- Cease, to a tar
- Captain's cry
- "Sail no farther!"
- "Halt!," to a salt
- "Halt," to a salt
- "Halt, matey!"
- "Cease!," at sea
- ''Halt!'' to a salt
- Warning to landlubbers
- Tub stopper?
- Tar's warning
- Tar's arresting cry
- Tar's 'Stop!'
- Stopper from a tub?
- Stop! (nautical)
- Stop: Naut
- Stop, to swabs
- Stop, sailor!
- Stop, on a tub
- Stop while floating?
- Stop on the ocean
- Stop on the briny
- Stop in pirate-speak
- Stop nautically
- Starbuck's shout?
- Shout on Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Seaman's 'Stop!'
- Seagoing command
- Seagoing "Cease!"
- Seagoer's shout
- Sea prompt?
- Salty "Halt!"
- Salt's "Hail!"
- Salt's 'Stop!'
- Salt stopper
- Sailor's stop
- Sailor's arresting cry?
- Sailor's 'Stop!'
- Port stopper
- Port "Stop!"
- Order to swabs
- Order to a sea dog
- Order on the water
- Order from Captain Ahab
- Nautical yell
- Nautical stop
- Nautical interjection that means "Stop!"
- Nautical "stop"
- Nautical "Hold it!"
- Marine command
- Lubber's alert
- Hook's "halt!"
- Gob's stopper
- Gob's alert
- Cease!, at sea
- Cease, at sea
- Cease at sea
- Captain's warning
- Captain's "stop"
- Captain's "Hold it!"
- Call to a swab
- Call aboard the ship
- Bo's'n's "Hold it!"
- Belay's partner
- Antivirus software with a nautical name
- "Stop" while sailing
- "Stop!": Naut
- "Stop," to a sailor
- "Stop," in pirate-speak
- "Stop, ye scurvy dogs!"
- "Stop, ya swabs!"
- "Stop this ship!"
- "Stop the ship!"
- "Stop right there, matey!"
- "Hold it, matey!"
- "Halt" from a salt
- "Halt!," to Horatio Hornblower
- "Halt!," to a sailor
- "Halt!," on the high seas
- "Halt, salt"
- "Halt, sailor!"
- "Drop anchor now"
- "Cease!" on the water
- "Cease!" kin
- "Cease, seaman!"
- "Cease, sailor!"
- "___, matey!" (pirate's line)
- 'Stop!,' asea
- 'Stop, sailor!'
- 'Stop, mate!'
- 'Halt!' at sea
- 'Halt!,' asea
- ''Stop!'' in piratespeak
- ''Stop!'' at sea
- ''Stop,'' on the water
- ''Stop your sloop!''
- ''Cut it out, Sailor!''
- ''Belay there!''
- Stop, at sea
- "Stop, sailor!"
- "Belay there!"
- Sailor's "Stop!"
- "Halt!" to a salt
- Command at sea
- Nautical command
- "Halt, salt!"
- "Stop!," to Popeye
- "Halt!," at sea
- Order at sea
- Call at sea
- Nautical imperative
- "Stop!" to a sailor
- Sailor's "halt!"
- "Cease" at sea
- Starbuck's order?
- Salt's "Halt!"
- "Stop!" at sea
- Check from a deck?
- "Stop, matey!"
- Stop order?
- Nautical "Stop!"
- Sailor's stopper
- "Hold it!," on 27-/44-Across
- Sailor's cry
- Something that makes stops on the ocean?
- "Stop!," at sea
- Pirate's "Stop!"
- "Stop!," at a port
- "Stop" at 44-Across
- Matey's cry
- "Cease!" on the seas
- Skipper's "Stop!"
- Seaman's "Halt!"
- Helmsman's command
- "Cease, you swabbies!"
- Salt's cry
- Skipper's "Cease!"
- "Halt, salts!"
- "Halt, you tars!"
- Word from Popeye
- Mariner's "Halt!"
- Belay's cousin
- Marine call
- Queeg's "Halt!"
- Nautical "Halt!"
- Haiti, at sea
- Shout from Popeye
- "Halt!" to a tar
- 20 Across, to Popeye
- Nautical shout
- Sailor's "Knock it off!"
- Stop, to a sailor
- Command from Bligh
- "Stop, you tars!"
- Desist, at sea
- Nautical term
- Nautical call
- Nautical cry
- Cousin of "Belay!"
- Bellow from Bligh
- "Stop!": Naut.
- Call on the main
- Shipboard "Stop!"
- Ship command
- Sailor's call
- Ahab's "Cease!"
- Bligh's "Halt!"
- Skipper's order
- Skipper's "Halt!"
- A great stop for sailors
- At sea stop son boarding a vessel
- A huge order for ships
- A great stop!
- Nautical greeting
- Sea call
- Sailor's shout
- Captain's command
- Cry from the crow's-nest
- "Halt!" on the seas
- Sailor's "stop"
- Nautical order
- Halt, to a salt
- 'Halt!' from a salt
- Pirate's interjection
- Cry from a crow's nest
- Crow's nest cry
- "Halt!" at sea
- "Cease!" at sea
- Swabbie's warning
- Stop, matey!
- Stop at sea
- Seaman's shout
- Seaman's "Stop!"
- "Stop," to a pirate
- Salt's ''Halt!''
- Nautical "Knock it off!"
- Cease, to a sailor
- Captain's order to stop
- Stop, off land
- Sinbad's "Stop!"
- Seaman's "stop"
- Salty greeting?
- Salt's shout
- Sailor's "Cease!"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avast
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
avast
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 hawser, by means of the capstan &c. [George Biddlecombe, "The Art of Rigging," 1848] \n
Wiktionary
avast
interj. (context nautical English) hold fast!; desist!; stay!.
Wikipedia
Avast (disambiguation)
Avast may refer to:
- The nautical term for stop or cease
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Avast Software, a Czech technology and internet security company
- Avast Antivirus, a security software developed by Avast Software
- Avast SecureLine, a virtual private network (VPN) service by Avast Software
- Avast! Recording Company, a music recording studio in Seattle, Washington
- Avast!, one of trademarked names for herbicide fluridone
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.