staysailn.
/ˈsteɪsl/, /ˈsteɪseɪl/, U.S. /ˈsteɪs(ə)l/, /ˈsteɪˌseɪl/ Nautical.
a. A triangular sail hoisted upon a stay. Often with defining word prefixed.
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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
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1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 18 Hoise up Main Staysail, and Mizen Stay-sail.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 163 Their top-gallant sails and stay-sails all fluttering in the wind.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 124 The Foudroyant's..stay-sails..were all in tatters.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 46 Some of the fore and afters had actually got staysails set, with the sheets hauled flat aft.
b. attributive.
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1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 300 The staysail sheet is let go.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 369 Staysail~netting, the netting above a vessel's bowsprit, for stowing away the fore-topmast staysail.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Staysail-Stay, the stay on which a staysail is set.
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