stayl (sta)

[ 2. A rope used for a similar purpose; a guy supporting the mast of a derrick, a telegraph pole, or the like.-3. In a chain-cable, the transverse piece in a link. In stays, or hove in stays ( naut.), in the act of going about from one tack to the other. - Martingale stays. See martingale.Slack in stays. See slack1.- Spring-stay, a smaller stay parallel to and a isting the regular one. - To heave in stays. See heave. To mi stays. See mi l. - To put a ship in stays, to bring her head to the wind; heave her to. To ride down a stay. See ride. - Triatic stay ( naut.), an arrangement of pendants to hook stay-tackles to for hoisting out or in boats or other heavy weights. One pendant is lashed at the foremast-or foretopmast-head, and one at the mainmast or maintopmast-head. These pendants have a span at their lower ends to keep them in place, and a large thimble is spliced into the lower end of each, into which the stay-tackles are hooked. stay1 (sta), v. [ II. in trans. Naut ., to change tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship. stay