As for me, with your permission I'll go perch on the bobstays under the bowsprit, and if we can get within a harpoon length, I'll harpoon the brute.
The Canadian went to resume his post on the bobstays under the bowsprit.
A rope extending downwards from the jib-boom end to a kind of short gaff-shaped spar, fixed perpendicularly under the cap of the bowsprit; its use is to guy the jib-boom down in the same manner as the bobstays retain the bowsprit.
Such neglect is highly culpable; more especially to rely on bobstays and gammonings for the security of a bowsprit!
To be sure, it is a culpable neglect to depend on bobstays and gammonings for the security of the bowsprit, but still even this is an oversight which, as my old friend has just told me, may be remedied by 'preventers and lashings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobstays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
