Fastly

Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb

Meaning

In a secure or firm manner; securely.

Definitions by Sense

1. In a secure or firm manner; securely
2. (now nonstandard) quickly

Example Sentences

We tied the rope fastly this time; we didn't want it to get away again.

Before them was a door which apparently led into the grand apartments; this was fastly secured, but it yielded to their united strength, and they entered a lofty hall, whose concave top was supported by pillars.

A reuerend man that graz’d his cattell ny, / Sometime a bluſterer that the ruffle knew / Of Court of Cittie, and had let go by / The ſwifteſt houres obſerued as they flew, / Towards this afflicted fancy faſtly drew: / And priuiledg’d by age deſires to know / In breefe the grounds and motiues of her wo.

Another time, my Mother seeing them come fastly to her house, my brother gave the key of his desk to my sister, bidding her convey the money somewhither; […]

Rope, Cord, or Strap, in the Manage, is any of theſe tied round a Pillar to which the Horſe is faſtned when they begin to quicken and ſupple and teach him to flee from the Shambner, and not gallop faſtly or incompactly.

Yes, ’tis the hand / Of death I feel press heavy on my vitals, / Slow sapping the warm current of existence. / My moments now are few—The sand of life / Ebbs fastly to its finish.

During these twelve days the life of the child was fastly on the wane; and all this time Emily tended him with an assiduity and tender solicitude that never flagged.

Determined in his death, and chasing him, he ran fastly to the 'Mission House,' and under Mrs. Richardson's bed he was sheltered and saved.

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• more fastly
• most fastly

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