stays'l

"Do you think she could carry the main-nopmast stays'l, sir?"

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Make ready to show a bit of the fore-eopmast stays'l.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

She was buried at once by the beam sea, and the jib flew to blazes; but the reefed stays'l stood, she recovered gamely, and I held on, though I knew it could only be for a few minutes, as the centre-plate was up, and she made frightful leeway towards the bank.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

And it breezed up more, and the _Hattie_, balloon and stays'l on now, and taking it over her quarter, was beginning to show the stuff in her.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

And then I cut the stays'l free and gave the _Hattie_ her wheel again, and when she was going full-tilt I jibed her over, and she had everything on, and it was blowing blue devils, and only one thing you'd think could happen after that long main-boom went swinging across her deck -- over the side had to go her spars.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

'We've lost the two tops'ls and the stays'l,' he gabbled.

The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907

Then Jean bade me look how the stays'l had been torn to flutters, and we both set about righting decks.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

They jest up stays'l an 'quit, nat'rally takin' Ireson with 'em.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Guess she'd carry stays'l," said Disko, rolling one eye at his brother.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Guess she'd lie easier under stays'l, Salters," said Disko, as though he had seen nothing.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900