Sitfast

Sitfast
Sitfast Sit"fast`, a. [Sit + fast.] Fixed; stationary; immovable. [R.] [1913 Webster]

'T is good, when you have crossed the sea and back, To find the sitfast acres where you left them. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]


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