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b) from vasgerd, etc. (see below), from *vasagarðr. O.N. fastgarðr, m., a stronghold; No. fastgard, m., 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.). fasgert can reasonably be derived from “fastgarðr”, at any rate in meaning 1 (in spite of the freq. 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 fasgerd 2, collar of straw, are also found such forms as vasgerd and vasgert (Wests. occas., Du. occas.), wasgert and wisgert (Ai. occas.), vadsgordin (Wh.), and these forms cannot be separated from the quite syn. wasi, wazi, “wizzie”, wisp of straw; collar of straw; cf. No., Sw. and Da. dial. vase, a tangled cluster; wisp; bundle of straw or twigs, etc., Sw. dial. vasa-gär(d)e, Da. dial. vasegjerde, — In Conn. a distinction is made between fasgord and vasgord, the latter of which is used jokingly of a collar.

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

fasjon, fa’-sjon [fāᶊȯn, -ᶊən], sb., epidemic, esp. in cattle, fashun (Barclay). Originates prob. from O.N. fallsótt, f., epidemic. The first part of the compd., in that case, is fa’, sb. (L.Sc. fa’ = Eng. fall); the second part is corrupted (O.N. sótt, f., epidemic; illness; cf. Shetl. sott², sb.). Hardly the word “farsot”, see prec. far³, sb.

fast [fast] and fasti [fasti], sb., a rope fastened to a stone serving as an anchor for a boat; occas. only applied to the stone itself. The form

fast is peculiar to Du. Jam. quotes a form, “fasta”. O.N. festr (afterwards: festi), f., a rope (fastened or by which something is fastened). See ilafast, skutfast and festi, sbs.

fast [fast], adj. and adv., occas.; a) fast, firm, O.N. fastr; occas. b) fast, quick, to had f., to hold firmly.

fastdrev, sb., see under fastdrog, sb.

fastdrog [fas(t)·drōg·], sb., a rope with an anchor, the rope fixed at each end of a fishing-net (esp. herring-net), set across a creek or bay, but the length of whick is less than the width of the creek (bay). Wests. Prob.: *fast-drag. In Conn. in the form fastdrev [fas(t)·drē^əv·]. — drog is doubtless from an older (O.N.) *drag, see drog, sb. and vb.; cf. No. dragnet, n., a kind of fishing-net, and Eng. drag, sb. drev is prob. a word diff. from drog, as the final g never changes to v in Shetl. drev = O.N. dreif, f., a band, chain? more prob. to be compared with No. driv, n., fishing by net made to drift with the current.

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

fasti [fasti], vb., to fasten, esp., a) to secure hay- or corn-stacks by means of ropes (simmens) 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. Du. From O.N. festa, vb., to fasten, influenced by fast, sb. and adj., fasti, sb., and Eng. fasten, vb. — See jardfast, vb., syn. with fasti, vb.