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Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail..

Haunt :: Haunt (v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.

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

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

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

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

Stayedness :: Stayedness (n.) Staidness.

Stayedly :: Stayed (a.) Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

Misstayed :: Misstayed (a.) Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

Stay :: Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

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

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.

Outdwell :: Outdwell (v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.

Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

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..

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.

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