fore-stayn.
/ˈfɔːsteɪ/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌsteɪ/ 1.
a. Nautical. A stay or strong rope reaching from the foremast-head towards the bowsprit end.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > stay > specific
head ropec1295
fore-stay1373
mainstay1485
sheep's feet1530
forehand1609
backstay1626
jib-stay1752
bobstay1759
breast backstay1769
sciatic stay1794
fore-topgallant-stay1805
funnel-stays1846
belly-stay-
1373 Indenture in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 369 Forstiez..backstiez.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The fore stay, the maine stay.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. B2v She had neither forestay or Backstay.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. viii. 82 We learnt that they had broke their fore-stay.
b. A sail hoisted on the fore-stay; in full fore-stay-sail.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > jib or sail set on forestay
jib1661
jib-sail1751
fore-stay1753
headstay1805
1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 152 With great difficulty we wore the ship with the foresail and forestaysail.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 19 And the fore-stay-sail balances before.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) vi. 214 The jib is the forestay.
2. (See quot. 1888).
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1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 208 Supported by the standard or forestay, are two grooved rods.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 46 Forestay of press, the leg which supports the frame or ribs of a hand-press.
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