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- Stays (nautical), the heavy ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run from the masts to the hull
- Collar stays, small rigid pieces used to maintain the point of a men's dress shirt collar
- Corset, a garment worn to mold and shape the torso
- Bone (corsetry), one of the rigid parts of a corset
- Guy-wire, a metal wire used to support tall structures, such as radio masts
- A part of a steam locomotive's firebox
- Seat stay and chain stay, parts of a bicycle frame
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“There was not a tree as far as we could see, and that was many miles each way, the general level of the upland being about the same everywhere. Even from the Atlantic side we overlooked the Bay, and saw to Manomet Point in Plymouth, and better from that side because it was the highest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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