topgallant-stay

Updated: May 20, 2025

Thus saying, he went forward to serve a topgallant-stay that was stretched across the forecastle-hatch from the cat-heads, and had just been spliced by the men, followed by an old-fashioned sea-urchin, a miniature of the tar, with a mallet in his hand.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Manuel Pereira