| 单词 | backstay |
| 释义 | backstay (once / 35601 pages) n WORD FAMILY backstay: backstays USAGE EXAMPLESA backstay floated dangling from it, stout rawhide rope, and I used this for lashing mast and keel together. Homer, The Odyssey(1961) This, with a few topmast and topgallant backstays cut away, and a few shot through our sails, is the only injury the Peacock has sustained. Various, The International Monthly, Volume 4...(2011) Backed against a backstay, and facing the point where the girl of the Red Mill stood, was Irma Lentz, in mackintosh and veil. Emerson, Alice B., Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound—A Red...(2011) n a stay that supports the back of something Hyper stay (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar |
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