avast

“Avast there, Jane,” laughed out Sam, much pleased at the way in which his sister had received me.

"Avast heaving, reverend man, and quit this folly," said the strange; dragging the bewildered Padre after him.

What would the mate of a French frigate say if he wanted to say in French, "Avast there, ye lubbering swab" to a friend like?

In a few minutes the second mate came up, hallooing to us to "avast," and laughing.

And so they watched the evolutions of the gulls for a few minutes, till Josh called out “Avast!”