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Definition of Forestays
1. forestay [n] - See also: forestay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forestays
Literary usage of Forestays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"500 BC lowered it lay aft in a rest, being raised and lowered by means of the
forestays, like the custom of the Thames barge and the Norfolk wherry-man. ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1852)
"And it will be necessary, therefore, in order to work with ease in going about,
that the mast should be stayed forward by two forestays to ..."
3. A manual for naval cadets by John McNeill Boyd (1857)
"When the forestays are " up," these are attached to them by " stirrups." The stage
is made of two spars, their heels secured on the head rails, ..."
4. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship-building, and the Rig of Clippers by Robert Montagu (1852)
"And it will be necessary, therefore, in order to work with ease in going about,
that the mast should be stayed forward by two forestays to ..."
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