Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misstay .
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Examples
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The bark was loaded soon after, and when proceeding across the bay, where currents and wind caught her foul near a dangerous sand bar, she misstayed and went on the strand.
Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 1877
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