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  • noun Plural form of staysail.

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Examples

  • He elects to spend his hours in the main cabin, not reading, not doing anything save dream with eyes wide open in the draught of wind that pours through the open ports and door from out the huge crojack and the jigger staysails.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Every sail was set and drawing, including the staysails.

    MAKE WESTING 2010

  • On the jib-boom there were two staysails; there was room enough for three, but the money would not run to it.

    The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

  • On the jib-boom there were two staysails; there was room enough for three, but the money would not run to it.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • As always, it was a grand sight to see the ship under a full spread of canvas, the royals, staysails, topgallants, topsails, and courses soaring overhead.

    A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

  • Outrigged at the tips of the yards came tiers of studding sails; staysails were set between the masts, and triangular jibs at the bow.

    A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

  • There were studdingsails and skyscrapers, staysails, royals, spritsails and topsails, a cloud of canvas that drove the warship westward.

    Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

  • Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • The helmsman drowsed against the binnacle with the wheel clamped in the friction brake as the galleass drifted under the limp billows of her staysails.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

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