backstay
Use Backstay in a sentence
noun
1.
Machinery. a supporting or checking piece in a mechanism.
2.
Building Trades. an anchored tension member, as a cable, permanently or temporarily supporting a compression member, as a tower or pole, subject to a pull above its base from the opposite direction.
3.
a strip of leather at the back of a shoe used for reinforcement and sometimes to connect the quarters.
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| —n | |
| 1. | nautical a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern |
| 2. | machinery a supporting piece or arresting part |
| 3. | anything that supports or strengthens the back of something, such as leather covering the back seam of a shoe |
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The main cable and backstay cables on cableways should consist of wire rope or structural or tramway strand.
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