8-Letter Words Containing A,T,A,Y,_

• 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.

• The cheekbone.

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

• A tumor of primitive connective tissue.

• a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport

• a stack of hay

• someone who pays taxes

• A set of footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.

• Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or similar, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, such as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheeled vehicles.