Read the passage below carefully and then choose the correct answer
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow, so indeed he did.
The torrent roard, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
The word in bold means