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Forestay

noun
1.
An adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast.





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"Forestay" Quotes from Famous Books



... are of muslin or lawn, and are laced to the boom and gaff and to curtain-rings on the mast, or for the jibs the common "eye" used for dresses makes a capital jib hank, and will slip readily up and down the forestay. ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... took me at the sight. In a sudden rage I gripped the forestay with my left hand, lowered my right, and, slipping my fingers under his belt, lifted him—he was a light man—swung him outboard and overboard, and dropped him ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... hull was still tight, they cut away the wreck and rode out the gale,—now blowing out of the north,—hanging to the tangle of spar and cordage which had once been the foremast and its gear. It made a fairly good sea-anchor, with the forestay—strong as any chain—for a cable, and she lay snug under the haphazard breakwater and benefited by the protection, as the seas must first break their heads over the wreckage before reaching her. The mainmast ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson


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