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Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 424

sta, n. (Naut.) A large, strong rope, employed; linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. to support a mast. — v. t. (Naut.) To tack, as a ve el, so that the wind, fr. being on one side,is caused to blow on the other. — Stay's ail,?i. Any sail extended on a stav. 424