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headstay

American

[hed-stey] / ˈhɛdˌsteɪ /

noun

(on a sailing vessel) a stay leading forward from the head of the foremost mast to the stem head or the end of the bowsprit.

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headstay

The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay.

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