stun'-sail-halyards

Updated: June 26, 2025

Ten minutes after, I was safe on board, and, springing aloft, was ordered to reeve anew the stun'-sail-halyards, which, slipping through the blocks when I had let go the end, had unrove and fallen to the deck.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War