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Earthfast. World English Historical Dictionary

Earthfast. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Earthfast a. [f. EARTH sb.1 + FAST a.] Fixed in the ground; cf. quot. 1869.

1 c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xvii. (1885), I. 130. Sume men synd swa ablende þæt hi bringað heora lac to eorðfæstum stane.

2 1868.  G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. 199–200. No runic earthfast monument of any kind … has ever been found in any Saxon or German territory.

3 1869.  R. B. Peacock, Gloss. Lonsdale Dial., Earthfast, said of a stone appearing on the surface but fast in the earth.

4 1881.  A. Leslie, trans. Nordenskiöld’s Voy. Vega, I. ii. 97. It [the grave] consisted of a box … fixed to the ground with earthfast stakes and cross-bars, so that neither beasts of prey nor lemmings could get through.

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