"headstay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From head + stay.",
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          "ref": "1982 January, Jerry Cartwright, “Cruising Seamanship”, in Motorboating & Sailing, volume 149, number 2, page 23:",
          "text": "The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.",
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          "forestay#English"
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        "(nautical) Synonym of forestay"
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  "etymology_text": "From head + stay.",
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