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brace

English

Etymology

From Middle English brace, from Old French brace (arm), from Latin bracchia, the nominative and accusative plural of bracchium (arm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?e?s/
  • Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

brace (plural braces)

  1. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
  2. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
  3. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
  4. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
  5. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
  6. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
    • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology
      The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.
  7. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
      the laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension
  8. Harness; warlike preparation.
  9. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
  10. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (The plural in this sense is unchanged.) In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
      But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
      I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,
      And justify you traitors
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain
      A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church
    • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5:
      "Are you a prime shot?'" said Richard.
      Ripton nodded knowingly, and answered, "Pretty good."
      "Then ww'll have a dozen brase apiece today," said Richard.
  11. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
  12. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
  13. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
  14. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
  15. (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
  16. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.

Synonyms

  • (measure of length representing a person's outstretched arms): fathom
  • (pair, couple): dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

Derived terms

  • curly brace

Translations

Verb

brace (third-person singular simple present braces, present participle bracing, simple past and past participle braced)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
    All hands, brace for impact!
    Brace yourself!
    The boy has no idea about everything that's been going on. You need to brace him for what's about to happen.
  2. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
    He braced himself against the crowd.
  3. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
    to brace the yards
  4. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
  5. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
    • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
      Just about then the young kid who had braced us when we came in uttered a curse and made for the door.
  6. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
    to brace a beam in a building
  7. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
    to brace the nerves
    • 1825, Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
      And welcome war to brace her drums.
  8. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
    • The women of China [] , by bracing and binding them [their feet] from their infancy, have very little feet.
    • 1815, Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
      some who spurs had first braced on

Synonyms

  • (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Translations

Related terms

  • brace aback
  • brace about
  • brace abox
  • brace by
  • brace in
  • brace oneself
  • brace sharp
  • brace of shakes

Anagrams

  • acerb, caber, cabre, cabré

Italian

Alternative forms

  • brage, bragia, bracia (archaic or regional)

Etymology

Perhaps from Gothic *???????????????????? (*brasa, glowing coal), from Proto-Germanic *bras? (gleed, crackling coal), Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (to crack, break, burst). Cognate with French braise (embers), Swedish brasa (to roast), Icelandic brasa (to harden by fire).Most probably cognate to Sanskrit ???? (bhrája, fire).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bra.t??e/
  • Hyphenation: brà?ce

Noun

brace f (plural braci)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) embers

Derived terms

  • braciaio
  • braciaiola
  • braciere
  • bracino
  • braciola

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French brace, from Latin bracchia, plural of bracchium.

Alternative forms

  • brase, braas, bras

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bra?s(?)/

Noun

brace (uncountable)

  1. Vambrace; armour which protects the arm.
  2. A cord or brace for fastening or attaching things to something.
  3. A group or set of two dogs or canines.
  4. Wood used as a buttress or support for building.
  5. (rare) A support or buttress used in other applications.
  6. (rare) A kind of riding equipment or horse tack.
  7. (rare) A peninsula; a cape or slice of land jutting into the sea.
  8. (rare) A perch (unit of measure)
  9. (rare) A point of a cross or rood.
Derived terms
  • bracen
  • bracer
  • brasyng
  • rerebrace
  • vambrace
Descendants
  • English: brace
  • Scots: brace
References
  • “br?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

Etymology 2

Verb

brace

  1. Alternative form of bracen

Old French

Etymology

From Latin brachia, bracchia, originally the plural of bracchium.

Noun

brace f (oblique plural braces, nominative singular brace, nominative plural braces)

  1. arm (limb)

Related terms

  • bras

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: brace, brase, braas, bras
    • English: brace
    • Scots: brace

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (brace)

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • braci

Etymology

From Latin br?cae, plural of br?ca.

Noun

brace f pl (plural only)

  1. (rare, Bukovina) underwear, undergarments, drawers, unmentionables

Declension

Synonyms

  • indispensabili, chilo?i, izmene

Related terms

  • îmbr?ca

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stay

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: st?, IPA(key): /ste?/
  • Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English steyen, staien, from Old French estayer, estaier (to fix, prop up, support, stay), from estaye, estaie (a prop, stay), from Middle Dutch staeye (a prop, stay), a contracted form of staede, stade (a prop, stay, help, aid) (compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise)), from Frankish *stad (a site, place, location, standing), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (a standing, place), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?tis (standing). Influenced by Old English stæ? ("a stay, rope"; see below). Cognate with Old English stede, stæde (a place, spot, locality, fixed position, station, site, standing, status, position of a moving body, stopping, standing still, stability, fixity, firmness, steadfastness), Swedish stödja (to prop, support, brace, hold up, bolster), Icelandic stöðug (continuous, stable). More at stead, steady.

Sense of "remain, continue" may be due to later influence from Old French ester, esteir (to stand, be, continue, remain), from Latin st?re (stand), from the same Proto-Indo-European root above; however, derivation from this root is untenable based on linguistic and historical grounds.

An alternative etymology derives Old French estaye, estaie, from Frankish *staka (stake, post), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (stake, bar, stick, pole), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (rod, pole, stick), making it cognate with Old English staca (pin, stake), Old English stician (to stick, be placed, lie, remain fixed). Cognate with Albanian shtagë (a long stick, a pole). More at stake, stick.

Verb

stay (third-person singular simple present stays, present participle staying, simple past and past participle stayed or (obsolete) staid)

  1. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
    • c. 1592,, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, Scene 7,[1]
      Lord Mayor of London. See, where he stands between two clergymen!
      Duke of Buckingham. Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,
      To stay him from the fall of vanity:
    • 1611 King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 17.12,[2]
      But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
    • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, “Directions for Writing the most Vsual and Legible Hands for Women”, p. 17,[3]
      Draw in your right elbow, turn your hand outward and bear it lightly, gripe not the pen too hard, with your left hand stay the paper.
    • 1725, John Dryden (translator), Virgil’s Husbandry, or an Essay on the Georgics, London, Book 2, p. 37,[4]
      Sallows and Reeds, on Banks of Rivers born,
      Remain to cut; for Vineyards useful found,
      To stay thy Vines and fence thy fruitful Ground.
  2. (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
    • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, Chapter 20,[5]
      [] he has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, as fast as Phoebe could cut it, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute []
  3. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
    • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 2,[6]
      Your ships are stay’d at Venice.
    • 1671, John Evelyn, Diary, entry dated 14 November, 1671, in The Diary of John Evelyn, London: Macmillan, 1906, Volume 2, p. 337,[7]
      This business staid me in London almost a week []
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book 3, Chapter 5, p. 207,[8]
      [] I was willing to stay my Reader on an Argument, that appears to me new []
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book 1, Chapter 6,[9]
      The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast-dying man.
    • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985, p. 44,[10]
      [] she filled the room she entered, and felt often as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him []
    • 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Chapter 9,
      She rose to leave but Libor stayed her.
  4. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
    • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, p. ,[11]
      [] all that may but with any the least shew of possibility stay their mindes from thinking that true, which they heartily wish were false, but cannot think it so []
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 24.7,[12]
      So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul.
    • 1852, Charlotte Brontë, letter cited in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter 10,[13]
      [] you must follow the impulse of your own inspiration. If THAT commands the slaying of the victim, no bystander has a right to put out his hand to stay the sacrificial knife: but I hold you a stern priestess in these matters.
  5. (transitive) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
    • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act III, Scene 1,[14]
      Now stay your strife []
    • 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Threnody” in Poems, Boston: James Munroe, p. 242,[15]
      For flattering planets seemed to say
      This child should ills of ages stay,
  6. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
    • 1935, Pearl S. Buck, A House Divided, London: Methuen, Part 1, p. 137,[16]
      Without one word to deny himself, Yuan let himself be bound, his hands behind his back, and no one could stay the matter.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, “The Leatherjacket,” pp. 187-188,[17]
      As I curled up like a dying fish beneath his flailing boots, I managed to stay his assault long enough to tell him that I had only ever seen myself as his most loyal servant []
  7. (transitive) To hold the attention of. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1,[18]
      She will not stay the siege of loving terms,
      Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To wait for; await.
    • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 2,[19]
      My father stays my coming;
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 2,[20]
      Let me stay the growth of his beard,
  10. (transitive, obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to stay to take part in or be present at (a meal, ceremony etc.).
    • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, Scene 2,[21]
      I stay dinner there.
    • 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Oxford 2009, p. 177:
      Some of the company staid supper, which prevented the embarrassment that must unavoidably have arisen, had the family been by themselves.
    • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 7,[22]
      How glad they had been to hear papa invite him to stay dinner, how sorry when he said it was quite out of his power []
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To rest; depend; rely.
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 30.12,[23]
      Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 2,[24]
      I stay here on my bond.
  12. (intransitive, obsolete) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
  13. (intransitive, archaic) To come to an end; cease.
    That day the storm stayed.
    • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,[25]
      Here my commission stays,
  14. (intransitive, archaic) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
    • 1700 John Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory epistle,[26]
      Yet not to be wholly silent of all your Charities I must stay a little on one Action, which preferr’d the Relief of Others, to the Consideration of your Self.
  15. (intransitive, dated) To make a stand; to stand firm.
  16. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
    That horse stays well.
  17. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
    • 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 140,[27]
      She would commaund the hasty Sunne to stay,
      Or backward turne his course from heuen's hight,
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, Act IV, p. 60,[28]
      Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first,
    • 1874 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Three Friends of Mine,” IV, in The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875, p. 353,[29]
      I stay a little longer, as one stays / To cover up the embers that still burn.
  18. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 4,[30]
      I’ll tell thee all my whole device / When I am in my coach, which stays for us.
    • 1693 John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A. & J. Churchill, p. 260,[31]
      The Father cannot stay any longer for the Portion, nor the Mother for a new Sett of Babies to play with []
  19. (intransitive, obsolete, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
    • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 1,[32]
      I have a servant comes with me along,
      That stays upon me []
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, Scene 3,[33]
      Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.
  20. (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
    • 1700, John Dryden (translator), Fables Ancient and Modern, “MELEAGER AND ATALANTA, Out of the Eighth Book OF OVIDS Metamorphosis,” p. 118,[34]
      For as the Flames augment, and as they stay / At their full Height, then languish to decay, / They rise, and sink by Fits []
    • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 2, Chapter 30,[35]
      The evergreen arch wouldn’t stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.
    • 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, 1960, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 210,[36]
      The three men in the room stayed motionless, holding their breaths.
  21. (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial) To live; reside
    Hey, where do you stay at?
Synonyms
  • (prop; support; sustain): bear, prop up, uphold
  • (stop; detain; hinder): See also Thesaurus:hinder
  • (restrain; withhold; check): curb; repress, stifle; See also Thesaurus:curb
  • (cause to cease): cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, stop, terminate; See also Thesaurus:end
  • (put off; defer; postpone): See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
  • (bear up under): endure, resist; See also Thesaurus:persevere
  • (wait for): await, wait for, wait on; See also Thesaurus:wait for
  • (rest; depend; rely): See also Thesaurus:rely
  • (come to a stand or standstill): blin, brake, desist, halt, stop; See also Thesaurus:stop
  • (come to an end): cease; See also Thesaurus:desist or Thesaurus:end
  • (dwell; linger; tarry; wait): See also Thesaurus:tarry
  • (make a stand): contend, break a lance, stand firm, take a stand
  • (last or persevere to the end): See also Thesaurus:persist
  • (remain in a particular place): abide, sojourn; See also Thesaurus:sojourn
  • (rest in patience or expectation): wait; See also Thesaurus:wait
  • (wait as an attendant): attend, bestand, serve; See also Thesaurus:serve
  • (continue to have a particular quality): continue, keep, remain; See also Thesaurus:remain
  • (live; reside): See also Thesaurus:reside
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • abide
  • belive
  • continue
  • dwell
  • live
  • remain
  • reside
  • tarry

Noun

stay (plural stays)

  1. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
    I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.
  2. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
    The governor granted a stay of execution.
  3. (archaic) A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
    stand at a stay
    • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI
      Affaires of state [] seemed rather to stand at a stay.
  4. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
  5. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
  6. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
    • 1633, George Herbert, The Church Porch
      Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays.
    • The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.
    • 1705, John Philips, Blenheim
      With prudent stay he long deferred / The rough contention.
  7. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
    • 1551, Ralph Robinson (sometimes spelt Raphe Robynson) (translator), Utopia (originally written by Sir Thomas More)
      They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false.
Translations
Derived terms
  • gay for the stay
  • staycation

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English stay, from Old French estaye, estaie (a prop, a stay), from Middle Dutch staeye (a prop, stay), a contracted form of staede, stade ("a prop, stay, help, aid"; compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise)), from Old Dutch *stad (a site, place, location, standing), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (a standing, place), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (to stand). See above.

Noun

stay (plural stays)

  1. A prop; a support.
    • The trees themselves serve, at the same time, as so many stays for their Vines
    • April 27, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
      Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry.
  2. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
    Where are the stays for my collar?
  3. (in the plural) A corset.
    • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
      Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays.
    • When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
  4. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
Derived terms
  • staybolt
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English stay, from Old English stæ? (stay, a rope supporting a mast), from Proto-Germanic *stag? (stay, rope), from Proto-Indo-European *stek-, *st?k- (stand, pole), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (to stand). Cognate with Dutch stag (stay), German Stag (stay), Swedish stag (stay), Icelandic stag (stay).

Noun

stay (plural stays)

  1. (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
  2. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
    The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding.
  3. The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
Synonyms
  • mastrope
Hyponyms
  • (rope supporting a mast): backstay, forestay, mainstay, triatic stay
Derived terms
Translations

References

Verb

stay (third-person singular simple present stays, present participle staying, simple past and past participle stayed)

  1. To brace or support with a stay or stays
    stay a mast
  2. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
  3. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
    to stay ship
  4. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.

Etymology 4

From Middle English *ste?e, from Old English *st??e, an apocopated variant of st??el (steep, abrupt), from Proto-Germanic *staigilaz (climbing, ascending, sloping, steep), see sty.

Alternative forms

  • stey, stee, steigh, sti

Adjective

stay (comparative stayer or more stay, superlative stayest or most stay)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Steep; ascending.
    • 1908, Publications of the Scottish History Society - Volume 53 - Page 121:
      The Castle of Edr. is naturally a great strenth situate upon the top of a high Rock perpendicular on all sides, except on the entry from the burgh, which is a stay ascent and is well fortified with strong Walls, three gates each one within another, with Drawbridges, and all necessary fortifications.
  2. (Britain dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
  3. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
  4. (Britain dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.

Adverb

stay (comparative stayer or more stay, superlative stayest or most stay)

  1. (Britain dialectal) Steeply.

Further reading

  • stay at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • stay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Yats, tays, yats

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • staye, stey

Etymology

From Old English stæ? (stay, a rope supporting a mast), from Proto-Germanic *stag? (stay, rope), from Proto-Indo-European *stek-, *st?k- (stand, pole), from Proto-Indo-European *st?- (to stand).

Noun

stay (plural stayes)

  1. (nautical) A stay (rope).

Declension

Descendants

  • Scots: stay
  • English: stay

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