You say," turning to me, "that the forestaywas carried away?
As it was the lightning ran forward on the tryatic stay, and broke our forestay at the night-head.
Her mast was dependent upon a forestay (spliced) and was not stepped, but worked in a tabernacle.
Every time she rose the jib let out a hundredweight of sea-water; the sprit buckled and cracked, and I looked at the splice in the forestay to see if it yet held.
Most of the sail-plans consisted of a large lug and a spitfire jib secured to a roller which could be revolved on the forestay as an axle by means of cords led aft to the well of the boat.
Instead of bringing the tack close in to the mast, the sail is taken outside the forestay and the tack downhaul belayed on the opposite side to which the sail is set.
She has the divided skirt forward, but the forestay is taken through the deck some distance inside the stem-head, this having an O.
When shifting foresails, the sail is lowered, tack let go, and the lacing comes away by itself; then the new sail can be hooked on to the halliards and laced to the forestay as quickly as it can be hauled up.
The latter should have a boom short enough to pass under the forestay when topped up, so that it has not to be unshipped for a gybe.
When setting a foresail the upper loop is passed over the forestay before the lower one is threaded through it, and so on with all the loops in turn.
By a further contrivance, the roller can be carried on the end of an iron or steel arm pivoted in a goose-neck secured to the front of the mast and worked by guys from the well; in which event the forestay is rigged in front of the roller.
Still gripping the forestaywith my left hand, I bent forward, ready to leap for deck.
The whole ship seemed to burst asunder and shut again, the flame of the explosion went wavering up the rigging, and I found myself hanging on to the forestay and dangling over emptiness.
The fellows at the wheel were momentarily expecting the mast to snap and fall backward on their heads, as there was now no forestay on it.
Then the lantern in the forestay bobbed down and up, and he came back to where Trask stood.
To any one looking through the cabin from the companionway Trask would be visible against the lantern hanging from a forestay if he walked erect in crossing the cabin.
As Horton spoke, the object of his solicitude, with incredible speed, slid down the forestay and disappeared through the scuttle of the forecastle.
Clambering on to the bulwarks, and holding on to the forestay with one hand, he held it above his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forestay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
