English Explanatory Dictionary

seat stay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.

Word forms

seat stay seat stays seatstay

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from sailing jargon where "stay" refers to a rope, wire, or rod which runs fore-and-aft along the centerline of a sailing ship from mast to deck, or to another mast, and serves to stabilize the mast.

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