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chainstay

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: chainstays

The chainstay is the tube running from the pedals to the rear wheel. A short chainstay.

Its length decides how a bike handles, since a short chainstay makes it quick and twitchy. A tourer has a long chainstay so that heels clear the panniers.

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Definitions of chainstay

  1. 1nounchainstayThe tube running from the pedals to the rear wheel.C1

    “The chainstay was scratched where the chain had slapped it.”

chainstay is a part.

Where it comes from

Chain plus stay, a stay being a tube that holds a frame in shape.

From chain + stay.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Cycling

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