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Triatic stay

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tri⋅at⋅ic stay

[trahy-at-ik]
–noun Nautical.
a backstay for the head of a fore-and-aft-rigged topmast, running down to the head of the lower mast next aft.

Origin:
1835–45; perh. tri- + -ate 1 + -ic
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