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Holdfast most often refers to:
- Holdfast (biology), a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms to their substrate
- Holdfast (tool), a tool used to secure a workpiece to a workbench or anvil
Holdfast or hold fast may also refer to:
Places[edit]
- Holdfast, Worcestershire, a village in the Malvern Hills District in England
- Holdfast, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
Music[edit]
- Hold Fast (album), the second studio album by Sheffield-based indie pop band The Crookes released in 2012
- Hold Fast (Acoustic Sessions), a 2018 acoustic studio album by the American punk band Face to Face
- "Hold Fast" (song), a 2006 song by MercyMe
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Hold Fast, a travel documentary film by Moxie Marlinspike
- Holdfast, a small castle or fort in some fantasy fiction, such as George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series
- Holdfast: Nations At War, a video game set in the Napoleonic Wars; see Napoleonic Wars in fiction
Other uses[edit]
- Hold Fast, the motto of the Clan MacLeod
- Holdfast, a common name in the South of England for Sellotape
- Holdfast (artillery), a plinth or pedestal to which an anti-aircraft or coastal battery gun was fitted
- Codename for the 1962 Ceylonese coup d'état attempt
See also[edit]
- Avast (disambiguation), a cognate of hold fast
- Holdfast Bay (disambiguation)