a-stayadv.
/əˈsteɪ/ Nautical.
A phrase used of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable is at an acute angle, so as to have a position similar to that of one of the ship's stays. Cf. a-peak adv.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adv.1867- you could cut something with a knife
- you could cut with a knife
- you could have fooled me
- you could have heard a pin drop
- you could have heard a pin fall
- you could have knocked me down with a feather
- you could have knocked me etc down with a feather
- you dancer
- you do the math
- you don't happen to
- you don't mean to say
- you don't mean to to tell me
- you don't play that
- you don't play that shit
- you don't say
- you don't say so
- you don't want to know
- you etc beauty
- you etc can go to the dickens
- you etc can have
- you etc can have someone
- you etc can have something
- you etc can keep
- you etc can keep something
- you etc none of the hastings