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abackstays
† abackstays, adv. Obs. Naut. (əˈbæksteɪz) [a prep.1 on, and back-stays.] Having the more important sails hauled round so as to lie in the plane of the wind's direction, and thus to present no surface to it. (Done when a square-rigged vessel is sailing in a wind more or less astern, and it is desire... Oxford English Dictionary
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backstay
backstay (ˈbæksteɪ) [f. back a. or n.] 1. Naut. (often pl.) Long ropes, slanting a little abaft, extending from the upper mast-heads to both sides or to the ‘channels’ of the ship, where they are fastened to backstay-plates; they serve to second the shrouds in supporting the masts under a press of s... Oxford English Dictionary
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astays
† aˈstays, advb. phr. Naut. Obs. [a prep.1 + stays.] = abackstays, aback n.; also called by the backstays, by the stays, by the lee.1622 R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 123 Another more forcible tooke us astayes; which put us in danger. 1671 Lond. Gaz. No. 544/3 Discovering the length of his ship, whi... Oxford English Dictionary
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stay
▪ I. stay, n.1 (steɪ) Also 4–5 stey(e, 5 stye, 5–6 staie, 6 staye. [OE. stæᵹ (? neut.) corresp. to Du. stag neut. and fem., staag neut., WFris. staech, LG. stach (16th c.), stag(g (E. Friesland), G. stag neut., ON. stag neut. (Da., Sw., Norw. stag, Icel. stag stay, clothes-line):—OTeut. *stago-, f. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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