OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29164

mainstay

/ˈmeɪn.steɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pilar
A chief support.
Agriculture is the mainstay of this country’s economy.
At the other extreme, we have that true maid-of-all-work type, the 0-6-0, the mainstay of goods, shunting, and often of passenger work right from the earliest days to the present t…
estay mayor
A stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast.
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