Stays
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Stays - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
STAYS, n. plu.
1. A bodice; a kind of waistcoat stiffened with whalebone or other thing, worn by females.
2. Stays, of a ship. [See Stay.]
3. Station; fixed anchorage.
4. Any support; that which keeps another extended.
Weavers, stretch your stays upon the weft.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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