9-Letter Words Ending: YS

• 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.

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

• a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)

• an archaic term for a parrot

• (possibly offensive) An Aboriginal boy or servant.

• Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea, native to Australia.

• an easy victory

• Widthwise The direction of the width of an object or place.

• Widthwise Directed across the width of an object or place.

• Cycle path, cycle lane

• 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.

• A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon or hydrocarbon based fuels); a flue.

• The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.

• The smokestack of a steam locomotive.

• A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.