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156 b) from, (see below), from *vasagarðr.  fastgarðr, , a stronghold;  fastgard, , revetment consisting of bundles of straw or leafy branches and heather, fastened, with nailed lists or boards, round new houses or old leaky ones (R.).  can reasonably be derived from “fastgarðr”, at any rate in meaning 1 (in spite of the long a, which may be a more modern lengthening); but whether the word has the same origin in the other senses given, is more doubtful. In the same sense as 2, collar of straw, are also found such forms as  and, and  , , and these forms cannot be separated from the quite  , , “wizzie”, wisp of straw; collar of straw;  ,  and vase, a tangled cluster; wisp; bundle of straw or twigs, , vasa-gär(d)e,  vasegjerde, — In  a distinction is made between and , the latter of which is used jokingly of a collar.

fasgord [fasgɔrd],, to repair a straw-basket,, by sewing on a new bottom when the old one is broken.  of the preceding word; see, 2 b.

fasjon, fa’-sjon [fāᶊȯn, -ᶊən], , epidemic, in cattle, fashun (Barclay). Originates from  fallsótt, , epidemic. The first part of the, in that case, is fa’, ( fa’ = fall); the second part is corrupted ( sótt,, epidemic; illness;  $2$, ). Hardly the word “farsot”, see $3$,

fast [fast] and fasti [fasti],, a rope fastened to a stone serving as an anchor for a boat; only applied to the stone itself. The form is peculiar to Jam. quotes a form, “”. festr (afterwards: festi),, a rope (fastened or by which something is fastened). See, and ,

fast [fast], and, ; a) fast, firm, fastr;  b) fast, quick, to had f., to hold firmly.

fastdrev,, see under ,

fastdrog [fas(t)·drōg·],, a rope with an anchor, the rope fixed at each end of a fishing-net ( herring-net), set across a creek or bay, but the length of whick is less than the width of the creek (bay). [fas(t)·drē$ə$v·]. — is doubtless from an older  *drag, see, and ;   dragnet, , a kind of fishing-net, and drag,  is  a word from, as the final g never changes to v in  = dreif,, a band, chain? more to be compared with driv, , fishing by net made to drift with the current.
 * *fast-drag. In in the form

†Fasten [fastən],, Quinquagesima; -e’en [‘eve’], the evening before Quinquagesima, = the more  “Fastern’s (Fasterin’s, Fastren’s) e’en”. fasta, , Lent, time of fasting. The form “Fasten” is also found in

fasti [fasti],, to fasten, , a) to secure hay- or corn-stacks by means of ropes weighted with heavy stones, to f. de hay, de corn, and b) to secure a boat from being carried away by storm and squall, by means of stones and the like placed in the bottom of it, to f. de boat. From festa,, to fasten, influenced by, and ,, , and fasten, — See, , with ,