jibstay

English

Noun

jibstay (plural jibstays)

1. (nautical) A stay (normally the forestay) to which the jib is attached
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 40, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!.