Machinery. a supporting or checking piece in a mechanism.
Building Trades. an anchored tension member, as a cable, permanently or temporarily supporting a compression member, as a tower or pole, subject to a pull above its base from the opposite direction.
a strip of leather at the back of a shoe used for reinforcement and sometimes to connect the quarters.
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In my fall I grappled with the backstay, and brought myself up, and landed on the cross-trees.
Just as he spoke, Tommy Rebow was hunting the animal from shroud to backstay, up over the mast-head and down again.
But Ulysses lashed the keel to the mast with the backstay, and on these he sat, borne by the winds across the sea.
He kept his clutch on the backstay with the dizzy notion that this saved him from clutching some one's throat.
Several long shots had struck the mast, and almost every shroud and backstay had been carried away.