Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstays
Literary usage of Headstays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United by Josiah Hooker Bissell (1883)
"Her headstays and our headstays got entangled. The motion of the vessels in the
water, one rising and the other falling, caused the ends of the cedar posts ..."
2. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"Provision is also made for connecting the main shrouds and headstays to brackets,
... The headstays are set up with turn- buckles secured sometimes by ..."
3. Incidents of a Whaling Voyage: To which are Added Observations on the by Francis Allyn Olmsted (1841)
"They are supported like the lower masts by headstays, shrouds and backstays.
The next upper divisions are the top gallant masts, and the next the royal ..."
4. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England: And on by Vernon Lushington, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1864)
"... account of the headstays being gone. The ship thus drove before the wind, and
great difficulty was found in steering her from the want of headsail, ..."
5. Reports of Admiralty Cases: Argued and Adjudged in the District Courts of by John Stoughton Newberry (1885)
"The master of the bark was pointed out to witness, standing on the forecastle;
and there was a city fireman on the bowsprit, cutting away the headstays, ..."
6. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1911)
"... into the sheet end, will make it possible for one man to block down without
aid even in a stiff breeze. Double headstays are almost a necessity if a ..."
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