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seat stay

seat stay noun: one of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.

Noun

seat stay (plural seat stays)

  1. One of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.
    • The bike was not safe to ride as it had a bend in the seat stay

Forms of seat stay

pluralseat stays
alternative formseatstay

Origin of seat stay

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.

Questions about seat stay

What does seat stay mean?
Seat stay means one of the two bicycle frame tubes running diagonally downward from the top of the seat tube to the rear dropouts.
What part of speech is seat stay?
Seat stay is a noun.
What is the plural of seat stay?
The plural of seat stay is seat stays.

Words near seat stay in the dictionary

  1. seat rails
  2. seat reservation ticket
  3. seat reservation tickets
  4. seat sale
  5. seat sales
  6. seat stay
  7. seat stays
  8. seat time
  9. seat tube
  10. seat tubes
  11. seat-belt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seat stay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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