jackstay

• The jackstay was torn from his grasp, and he fell, face downward, into the black void beneath An involuntary shriek began on his lips, but was not finished. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
• The jackstay was torn from his grasp, and he fell, face downward, into the black void beneath. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
• And the ice on spar and jackstay, and the cracking, volleying sail, —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920
• The fellow made his way up the ratlines with extreme deliberation -- for, indeed, a journey aloft in such scorching heat was no joke -- made up the loose gasket, and was in the very act of swinging himself off the yard when, happening to be watching him, I saw him suddenly pause and stiffen into an attitude of attention as, holding on to the jackstay with one hand, he flung the other up to his forehead and peered ahead under the sharp of it. —  Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
• Jackson, who was outside of me, gripped the jackstay and threw his feet around the yard-arm which was springing and jumping away at a terrific rate with the shock of the cracking topsail. —  Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

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