society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adverb] > with wind on front of sail (2)
= abackstays, adv., aback, n.; also called by the backstays, by the stays, by the lee.
Nautical. With the front surface of a sail exposed to the wind so that the sail, if square, is pressed back against the mast, or if fore-and-aft…