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Nautical. A triangular stay-sail stretching from the outer end of the jib-boom to the fore-topmast head in large ships, and from the bowsprit to…
A sail hoisted on the fore-stay; in full fore-stay-sail.
A stay reaching from the head of the foremast (on a vessel with more than one mast), or (in later use) the mast on a single-masted vessel, to the…