Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jackstay"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jackstay \Jack"stay`\, n. (Naut.)
A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel,
to which the sails are fastened.
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