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  • noun Plural form of jackstay.

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Examples

  • Above, the masts and spars looked dark in the dim, gray light of the early morning, the strips of canvas stretching away from the jackstays and flicking dismally to leeward.

    Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

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