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Forestay

noun
1.
An adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast.






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"Forestay" Quotes from Famous Books



... rushed through the water with terrific speed; burying her bows in foam at one moment, and hurling off clouds of spray at the next as she held on her wild course. Job stood on the bowsprit, drenched with spray, holding with one hand to the forestay, and waving the other high above his head, cheering and yelling furiously as if he were daring the angry sea to come on, ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne



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