stays'l

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stays'l (plural stays'ls)

  1. (nautical, colloquial) A staysail.
    • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
      "Guess she'd lie easier under stays'l, Salters," said Disko, as though he had seen nothing.