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Derrick :: Derrick (n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building..

Abide :: Abide (v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place..

Tarry :: Tarry (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays..

Furl :: Furl (v. t.) To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten..

Overstayed :: Overstayed (imp. & p. p.) of Oversta.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

Leave :: Leave (v.) To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed..

Attend :: Attend (v. i.) To wait; to stay; to delay.

Aiglet :: Aiglet (n.) A round white staylace.

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Tartan :: Tartan (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib..

Lag :: Lag (v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..

Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..

Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To linger; to stay; to tarry.

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