Crossword-Solution: HOLDFAST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Holdfast | n. | Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. |
| Holdfast | n. | 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. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “HOLDFAST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Catch or clamp. | 1 answer |
| Form a good bond | 1 answer |
| Hang on tightly | 1 answer |
| Keep a tight grip | 1 answer |
| Hang on tight | 3 answers |
| Cling (to) | 11 answers |
| Saskatchewan community | 14 answers |
| Cling | 16 answers |
| staple | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOLDFAST (5)
But having struck that one blow, and having found that it did not suffice, could she then withdraw, give way, and own herself beaten? Has it been so usually with Anglo-Saxon pluck? In such case as that would there have been no mention of those two dogs, Brag and Holdfast? The man of the northern States knows that he has bragged,--bragged as loudly as his English forefathers.
Holdfast, returned to them, and found him there with Bayne, looking, disconsolately, over a dozen orders for carving-tools.
Holdfast and they both visited Simmons, and urged him to make a clean breast before he left the world.
Grotait came all in a hurry, but Holdfast was there before him, and was actually exhorting Simmons to do a good action in his last moments, and reveal those greater culprits who had employed him, when Grotait, ill at ease, walked in, sat down at the foot of the bed, and fixed his eye on Simmons.
Yet, when Holdfast had done, Simmons was observed to look at Grotait, though he replied to the other.
Quotes with HOLDFAST (1)
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1960–2021).