ALL meanings of stays
stay
S s - verb without object stays (of a ship) to change to the other tack. 1
- verb with object stays to support or secure with a stay or stays: to stay a mast. 1
- verb with object stays to put (a ship) on the other tack. 1
- noun stays any of various strong ropes or wires for steadying masts, funnels, etc. 1
- idioms stays in stays, (of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel) heading into the wind with sails shaking, as in coming about. 1
- noun plural stays corsets with bones in them 0
- noun plural stays a position of a sailing vessel relative to the wind so that the sails are luffing or aback 0