Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstay
Literary usage of Headstay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1911)
"The headstay is J^-inch diameter plough-steel wire and all the running is %-inch
diameter best Plymouth manila bolt rope. The blocks may be galvanized iron, ..."
2. Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects: Compiled from Various by William McCarty (1842)
"Our foremast being wounded, and bowsprit likewise; Our lower rigging fore and
aft, and headstay beside; ..."
3. The Building of a Wooden Ship by Charles Gerard Davis, Thomas William Clarke, Frank Steel Drown (1918)
"FORESTAY OR headstay—the hemp or wire ropes leading from the stem to the head of
the mast or hounds. This is to stay or brace the mast in a fore-and-aft ..."
4. Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"We installed a roller furling system on the headstay and we use this for the genoa.
It works so well, in fact, that we have never used the storm jib (except ..."
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