Jackstay

I screwed round a bit, holding the jackstay with one hand, and steadying the insensible Ordinary with the other. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had traced out bit by bit, until now I could clearly see the jackstay, running along the top of the royal mast; and, you know, the royal itself was set. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At his touch, as though by magic, the young fellow calmed down, and Stubbins — reaching round him — grasped the jackstay on the other side. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And the ice on spar and jackstay, and the cracking, volleying sail, ❋ Various (N/A)

Pulling myself along the jackstay until I reached the bunt, I managed to grasp a line that was tailing taut downward toward the deck. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Jackson, who was outside of me, gripped the jackstay and threw his feet around the yard-arm which was springing and jumping away at a terrific rate with the shock of the cracking topsail. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The damaged net was taken away and one of the old service grummet nets slung in its place, the cylinders containing the gun cotton being attached to the jackstay immediately in front of the battered sides, and 30 feet from the hulk, and sunk to a distance of 20 feet below the water line, which would bring it about opposite the bend of the bilge. ❋ Various (N/A)

I put my left arm round the Ordinary's body -- getting hold of the jackstay on the other side. ❋ Unknown (1909)

At his touch, as though by magic, the young fellow calmed down, and Stubbins -- reaching round him -- grasped the jackstay on the other side. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The jackstay was torn from his grasp, and he fell, face downward, into the black void beneath. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)

The MAIB report said that Jonathan fell "because he unclipped his belt harness from the wire jackstay to which the edge of a sail is fastened provided on the fore course yard, contrary to his training and onboard procedures for work at that position". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The report said he had unclipped his belt harness from the wire jackstay, which holds the edge of a sail. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Manoeuvre of submarines in deep blue sea, followed by jackstay, a seamanship evolution carried out in very close proximity to enable transfer of stores and personnel from one ship to another while moving through the water also lent moments of thrills to the onlookers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fellow made his way up the ratlines with extreme deliberation -- for, indeed, a journey aloft in such scorching heat was no joke -- made up the loose gasket, and was in the very act of swinging himself off the yard when, happening to be watching him, I saw him suddenly pause and stiffen into an attitude of attention as, holding on to the jackstay with one hand, he flung the other up to his forehead and peered ahead under the sharp of it. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

I put my left arm round the Ordinary’s body — getting hold of the jackstay on the other side. ❋ Unknown (2007)

apart, and connected by a jackstay to which the nets were attached. ❋ Various (N/A)