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Meanings of holdfast in English
Root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed.
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Usage of holdfast in English
1
The man had been taken outside a small holdfast in the hills.
2
A column of riders moved between the burning buildings toward the holdfast.
3
This is all the remains of the holdfast of Sherrer, Lord Eddard.
4
In ones and twos, the holdfast of Sherrer struggled to its feet.
5
Without this holdfast, our vitiated imaginations would refine away language to mere abstractions.
6
The most fundamental external differentiation is into holdfast and shoot.
7
But now of the holdfast, which is our special subject.
8
No man can steady his life except by clinging to a holdfast without himself.
9
The holdfast cannot be a part of the chain.
10
At Wendish Town, the people sought shelter in their holdfast, but the walls were timbered.
11
Silent and holdfast and deadly to anger-that'sthe Rands.
12
Isolated fibrous matter strongly resemble the shape and size of the sponge holdfast with membrane-like structure.
13
We shall have a holdfast and a mooring.
14
The holdfast gates were studded with iron nails.
15
He rode Honor up to the holdfast gates.
16
She clumsily enfolds the satellite, and succeeds in finally wrenching it away from its icy holdfast.
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