Bible Dictionaries
Stays
King James Dictionary
STAYS, n. plu.
1. A bodice a kind of waistcoat stiffened with whalebone or other thing, worn by females.
2. Stays, of a ship. See Stay.
3. Station fixed anchorage.
4. Any support that which keeps another extended.
Weavers, stretch your stays upon the weft.
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Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Stays'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/stays.html.