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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Avast \A*vast"\, interj. [Corrupted from D. houd vast hold fast.
     See {Hold}, v. t., and {Fast}, a.] (Naut.)
     Cease; stop; stay. ``Avast heaving.'' --Totten.

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