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A hold fast is an accessory used on a woodworking workbench and in blacksmithing to fix a workpiece to the top or side of the bench while it is being worked.
A hold fast is shaped like a shepherd's hook. In use, the shank fits loosely into a hole in the top or side of the bench and the tip of the hook is pressed against the work. The hold fast is set by rapping the top with a mallet, which causes the shaft to wedge against the sides of the hole. It is released by hitting the back side.
A holdfast is also a plinth or pedestal, usually of concrete, to which an anti-aircraft or coastal battery gun was fitted. Holdfasts are often the only evidence for a weapon that survives.
Hold Fast is a song written and recorded Christian rock band MercyMe. It was released as the second single from their 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe.
Hold Fast was the second full length studio album released by Sheffield-based indie pop group The Crookes. Produced by long-time collaborator Matt Peel, it was recorded in February 2012 and released on Fierce Panda Records on 9 July 2012. Three tracks from the album were released as singles, and the album generally received positive reviews in the media.
Hold Fast was the first Crookes album to feature guitarist Tom Dakin, who was brought in to temporarily fill in on an autumn tour of Europe and the UK when founding member Alex Saunders left the band in September 2011; Dakin has since become a permanent member of the band. As was the case with their 2010 EP Dreaming of Another Day and 2011 debut album Chasing After Ghosts, all lyrics on this album were penned by guitarist Daniel Hopewell.
Usage examples of "hold fast".
He had been told to hold fast to it, because it was the only thing he needed to get where he was going.
They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in opposition to the progressive historical development of the proletariat.
Whatever might be his desire to stop where he was, and to hold fast there, he was irresistibly compelled to continue, to advance, to examine, to think, to go forward.
Trying very hard to hold fast to her faith in the Gods, Kadolan had accompanied Inosolan and Azak to the Rotunda.
And (he said) that of the fifty thousand men who had been in the city of Nagundy he had chosen them alone as his companions and true friends, and he begged of them that they would hold fast in death to the loyalty which they had borne him in their lives.
Just then father lifted the rainbow again, without noticing me at all, and though I tried to seize the end of it and hold fast, it melted away entirely and I was left alone and helpless on the cold, hard earth!
Fourth Translator surged forward on one side so that she could hold fast to her, while Eighth pressed against her undamaged side on the other.
Heed not those who would defile the temple of your soul with promises of material things and worldly power, but hold fast to the way of God and be free!
She knew she had been prompted by the irresistible impulse to hold fast to what was most precious to her, and that Owen's arrival on the scene had been the pretext for her decision, and not its cause.
I am like to be well ridden by my father's servant, who knows at least to hold fast that which is mine.
But they can also show some guts and hold fast to the farming tradition.
Even if he did hold fast, his tale amounted to third-party hearsay.
He went padding under another chair and prepared to hold fast to its rungs with all four paws and prehensile tail.
The people wished to hold fast to the one thing that they thought could not be taken from them, the owners did their best to prove them wrong.
Pahner said quietly, his own pistol out and trained as he transmitted furious orders to hold fast over his toot.