seat stay

短语

词形变化

seat stays 复数 seat stays

别名

seatstay

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary