9-Letter Words Containing: A,K,S,A,S

• 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.

• someone who is a detective

• A type of pancake, or flapjack.

• A simple card game similar to snap.

• a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

• an earthquake at the sea bed

• a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

• a stack of hay

• The punctuation mark \.

• Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.

• To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.

• (Jewish) marriage broker, matchmaker