fast (adj.)
close, very near [to]
2H6 III.ii.189[Warwick to Queen] Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh, / And sees fast by a butcher with an axe / But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
TNK II.v.6[Gaoler's Daughter alone, of a cedar tree] Fast by a brook
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