English vocabulary examples in context: backstay
Vocabulary in context: backstay -- Example 1.
I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
Vocabulary in context: backstay -- Example 2.
Without fear Mrs. Weldon saw Jack, in company with Dick Sand, spring out on the shrouds, climb to the top of the mizzen-mast, or to the booms of the mizzen-topmast, and come down again like an arrow the whole length of the backstays.
Vocabulary in context: backstay -- Example 3.
Dick Sand had finished his task, and seizing one of the starboard backstays, he slid to the deck.
Vocabulary in context: backstay -- Example 4.
But, to secure the solidity of the masts, he had the shrouds and backstays hauled taut.
