missing stays

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• Missing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Miss>>. II. Missing ·vi Absent from the place where it was expected to be foun...

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• missing

  If a vessel is not heard of within six months after her departure (or after the last intelligence of...

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• funnel-stays

  The ropes or chains by which the smoke-funnel is secured in a steam-ship. ...

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• jack-stays

  Ropes, battens, or iron bars placed on a yard or spar and set taut, either for bending the head of a...

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• spring-stays

  Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should t...

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• full for stays!

  The order to keep the sails full to preserve the velocity, assisting the action of the rudder in tac...

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• heaving in stays

  The act of tacking, when, the wind being ahead, great pressure is thrown upon the stays. ...

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• hove-in-stays

  The position of a ship in the act of going about. ...

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• slack in stays

  Slow in going about. Also applied to a lazy man. ...

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• stations for stays!

  Repair to your posts to tack ship. ...

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• to be among the missing

  To be absent, to leave, to run away. There comes old David for my militia fine; I don't want to see...

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• keeping full for stays

  A necessary precaution to give the sails full force, in aid of the rudder when going about. ...

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