triatic stay

[ trahy-at-ik ]

/ traɪˈæt ɪk /

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noun Nautical.

a backstay for the head of a fore-and-aft-rigged topmast, running down to the head of the lower mast next aft.

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Origin of triatic stay

1835–45; perhaps tri- + -ate¹ + -ic

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