The jib traveller guys are seized on to the traveller, and are shortened in and set up when the jib is eased in.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Ropes used to steady boats' davits. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Stout ropes which act as backstays do to a mast, by supporting the jib-boom against the pressure of ...
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
, are generally the breast-backstays, which set up with a runner purchase in the channels on the wea...
A similar contrivance adapted to a martingale to support the jib-boom in that particular part where ...