breast backstays
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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breast backstays, a pair of
stays which led from the
head of a
topmast or a
topgallant mast in a
square-rigged ship to
chain-plates forward of the standing
backstays to provide support for the upper masts from the
windward side of the ship. They formed part of the standing
rigging of the ship.
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