Found 1 hit - Term: stay bolt, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stay \stay\, n. cf. of. estai, f. 'etai support, and e. stay
a rope to support a mast.
1. that which serves as a prop; a support. "my only strength
and stay." --milton.
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trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
--addison.
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lord liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
--coleridge.
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2. pl. a corset stiffened with whalebone or other material,
worn by women, and rarely by men.
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how the strait stays the slender waist constrain.
--gay.
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3. continuance in a place; abode for a space of time;
sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
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make haste, and leave thy business and thy care;
no mortal interest can be worth thy stay. --dryden.
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embrace the hero and his stay implore. --waller.
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4. cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
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made of sphere metal, never to decay
until his revolution was at stay. --milton.
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affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay.
--hayward.
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5. hindrance; let; check. obs.
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they were able to read good authors without any
stay, if the book were not false. --robynson
more's
utopia.
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6. restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness;
sobriety. obs. "not grudging that thy lust hath bounds
and stays." --herbert.
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the wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
--bacon.
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with prudent stay he long deferred
the rough contention. --philips.
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7. engin. strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts
together, or stiffen them.
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stay bolt mech., a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite
plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when
acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart,
as in the leg of a steam boiler.
stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for
the front support of a woman's stays. cf. busk.
stay rod, a rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a
steam boiler.
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see also:
stay bolt stay busk busk stay rod
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Stay Bolt, definition of term: Stay Bolt
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