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Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Go :: Go (v. i.) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come..

Staid :: Stayed (imp. & p. p.) of Sta.

Stayed :: Stay (n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship..

Stay :: Staying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sta.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Persistency :: Persistency (n.) The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well..

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Truant :: Truant (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk..

Jippo :: Jippo (n.) A waistcoat or kind of stays for women.

Martingal :: Martingal (n.) A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.

Stayedness :: Stayedly (adv.) Staidly. See Staidly.

Mainstay :: Mainstay (n.) Main support; principal dependence.

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