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• A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.

• A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.

• A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.

• (underwater diving) A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.

• a stack of hay

• A motor car having a continuous slope from the roof to the rear

• a stay that supports the back of something

• salt pork from the back of a hog carcass

• A cast or throw back.

• A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.

• Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.

• Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.

• Retrospect; hindsight.

• Backwater

• To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.

• To change retrospectively; reverse.

• Retrospective.

• (of time) Long ago; in the past.