| 单词 | jackstay |
| 释义 | jackstay /jak"stay'/, n. Naut. 1. a rod or batten, following a yard, gaff, or boom, to which one edge of a sail is bent. 2. a rail for guiding the movement of the hanks of a sail. 3. a transverse stay for stiffening a mast having a gaff sail, coming downward and outward from the head of the mast, passing over a spreader at the level of the gaff, then inclining inward to the mast again near the foot. 4. See jack rod. [1830-40; JACK1 + STAY3] |
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