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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: holdfast (0.00819 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to holdfast.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: holdfast
holdfast
n : restraint that attaches to something or holds something in
place [syn:
fastener,
fastening,
fixing]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Holdfast
Holdfast
\Hold"fast`\, n.
1. Something used to secure and hold in place something else,
as a long flat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a
clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
“His holdfast was gone.”
--Bp. Montagu.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is
attached to its support, and differing from a root in that
it is not specially absorbent of moisture.
[1913 Webster]
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