sand-stay

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• Stay

  ·noun Hindrance; let; check. II. Stay ·vi To continue in a state. III. Stay ·vi To change tack; as...

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• stay

  A cuckold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stay

  A large strong rope extending from the upper end of each mast towards the stem of the ship, as the s...

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• Sand

  ·noun Courage; pluck; grit. II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand. III. Sand ·noun A single particle...

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• bob stay

  A rope which holds the bowsprit to the stem or cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to stay put

  To remain in order; not to be disturbed. A vulgar expression. The levees and wharves of the First M...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• a-stay

  Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...

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• belly-stay

  Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above. ...

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• fore-stay

  See stay. ...

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• jib-stay

  The stay on which the jib is set. ...

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• short stay

  "Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...

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• stay apeek

  When the cable and fore-stay form a line. (See apeek.) ...

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• stay-rods

  See stay-bars ...

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• stay-bars

  , or stay-rods. Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....

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• staysail-stay

  The stay on which a staysail is set. ...

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• triatic stay

  A rope secured at each end of the heads of the fore and main masts, with thimbles spliced in its big...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Sand-lot

  ·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...

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• Sand Wharf

  See Wheatsheaf Wharf. ...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• sand-lark

  n. name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm. 1867. W. Richa...

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• sand-flea

  (Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sand-galls

  spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff. ...

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• sand-streak

  See garboard-strake ...

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• quick-sand

  A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...

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• sand-bags

  Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...

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• sand-drifts

  Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c. ...

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• sand-hills

  Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....

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• sand-hopper

  A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches. ...

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• sand-launce

  ♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand. ...

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• sand-piper

  A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...

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• sand-shot

  Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...

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• sand-strake

  A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake. ...

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• sand-warpt

  Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood. ...

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• shifting sand

  A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...

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• sand glass

  See short-time ...

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• stay-a-while

  n. a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.). ...

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• cutter-stay fashion

  The turning-in of a dead-eye with the end of the shroud down. ...

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• inner jib-stay

  A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-m...

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• rope of sand

  A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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• eye of a stay

  That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...

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• sand and coral bank

  An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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