headstall

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The genoa and staysails are furled on their headstays, which operate hydraulically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under all bowsprits on schooners, to guy the headstays, thrusts downward a short spar, at right angles to the bowsprit; it is called the martingale or dolphin-striker.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman