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Tackle
·noun To supply with tackle.
II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
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tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tackle
A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England.
TO TACKLE
1) To tackle a horse, is to h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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tackle
A purchase formed by the connection of a fall, or rope, with two or more blocks. When a power sustai...
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Cat
·noun A cat o' nine tails. ·see <<Below>>.
II. Cat ·noun A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up ...
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cat
A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman.
to cat
To vomit from drunkenness.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat, native
n.
a small carnivorous marsupial,of the genus Dasyurus. The so-called native cat is nota cat at all...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cat
A ship formed on the Norwegian model, and usually employed in the coal and timber trade. These vesse...
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Fish-tackle
·noun A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used ...
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Top-tackle
·noun A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
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deck-tackle
A purchase led along the decks.
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fish-tackle
A tackle employed to hook and draw up the flukes of a ship's anchor towards the top of the bow, afte...
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fore-tackle
A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...
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ground-tackle
A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...
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hoisting-tackle
A whip, a burton, or greater purchase, as yard-arm tackles, &c.
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jigger-tackle
A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions abo...
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luff-tackle
A purchase composed of a double and single block, the standing end of the rope being fast to the sin...
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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quarter-tackle
A strong tackle fixed occasionally upon the quarter of the main-yard, to hoist heavy bodies in or ou...
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spike-tackle and cant-falls
The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship.
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tackle-fall
The part hauled upon in any tackle, simple or compound.
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tail-tackle
A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...
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top-tackle
A large tackle, or properly pendant, hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope, and to the de...
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train-tackle
A tackle which is during action hooked to an eye-bolt in the train of a gun-carriage, and to a ring-...
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truss-tackle
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...
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watch-tackle
A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...
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winding-tackle
A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block, and one double or triple movable block. It ...
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Cat-eyed
·adj Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
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Cat-harpin
·noun ·see Cat-harping.
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Cat-harping
·noun One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to gi...
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Cat-hole
·noun One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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Cat-rigged
·adj Rigged like a catboat.
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Cat-salt
·noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
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Cat-silver
·noun <<Mica>>.
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Cat-tail
·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...
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Gib-cat
·noun A male cat, ·esp. an old one. ·see lst Gib. ·noun.
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Hell-cat
·noun A witch; a hag.
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Sea cat
·- The wolf fish.
II. Sea cat ·- Any marine siluroid fish, as Aelurichthys marinus, and Arinus feli...
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Tib-cat
·noun A female cat.
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Wild-cat
·adj Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
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Cat Alley
North out of Long Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). "Catt Alley" (Stryp...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cat-heads
A Woman's breasts.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat call
A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It deriv...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat lap
Tea, called also scandal broth.
See scandal broth.
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cat match
When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
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cat sticks
Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat.
See trap sticks.
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cat whipping
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cheshire cat
He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.
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gib cat
A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancho...
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hell cat
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman.
See termagant and vixen.
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cat-bird
n.
In America the name is given to Mimus carolinensis, a mocking thrush, which like theAustralian b...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cat-fish
n.
The name is applied in the OldWorld to various fishes of the family Siluridae, andalso to the Wo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native cat
n.
See cat.
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tiger-cat
n.
special name appliedto the Common and Spotted-tailed Native Cat.See under Cat.
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cat-tails
Hares-tail rush (erophorum vaginatum). So called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. This name is ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cat-ham'd
fumbling, awkward, without dexterity. Exmoor.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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whern-cat
a queen-cat, or female cat. QUEEN, in Saxon, was used to signify the female ; ex. g. QUEEN FUGOL, a ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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wild-cat
the pole-cat. Lane.
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cat-beam
This, called also the beak-head beam, is the broadest beam in the ship, and is generally made of two...
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cat-block
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw...
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cat-fall
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted.
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cat-fish
A name for the sea-wolf (Anarrhicas lupus).
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cat-gut
A term applied to the sea-laces or Fucus filum. (See sea-catgut.)
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cat-harpings
, or catharpin legs
Ropes under the tops at the lower end of the futtock-shrouds, serving to brace...
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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cat-holes
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...
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cat-hook
A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of t...
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cat-lap
A common phrase for tea or weak drink.
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cat-rig
A rig which in smooth water surpasses every other, but, being utterly unsuited for sea or heavy weat...
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cat-rope
A line for hauling the cat-hook about: also cat-back-rope, which hauls the block to the ring of the ...
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cat-stopper
, or cathead-stopper
A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...
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sea-cat
A name of the wolf-fish, Anarrhicas lupus.
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thieves' cat
A cat o' nine tails having knots upon it, and only used for the punishment of theft.
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anchor-stock tackle
A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...
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gun-tackle purchase
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
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half-watch tackle
A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.)
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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racking a tackle or laniard
The fastening two running parts together with a seizing, so as to prevent it from rendering through ...
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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used.
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shifting a tackle
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
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top burton-tackle
See burton.
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top-tackle pendant
The pendant used with the above. The top-mast is swayed up by a top-rope or hawser. The pendant, whi...
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winding-tackle pendant
A strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head, and forming the support of the winding-tackle.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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cat harping fashion
Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat in pan
To turn cat in pan, to change sides or parties; supposed originally to have been to turn CATE or CAK...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whipping the cat
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cherry-coloured cat
A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red.
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kit-cat club
A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. m...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to shoot the cat
To vomit from excess of liquor; called also catting.
To vomit from drunkenness.
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cat-tail grass
Herds grass, or timothy.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wild cat bank
One of the various terms applied at the West to some of the irresponsible banks of the country. A ba...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cat the anchor
When the cat is hooked and "cable enough" veered and stoppered, the anchor hangs below the cat-head,...
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combing the cat
The boatswain, or other operator, running his fingers through the cat o' nine tails, to separate the...
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fore cat-harpings
See cat-harpings.
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up-and-down tackle
A purchase used in bowsing down the eyes of the lower rigging over the mast-heads; lifting objects f...
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Cat o' nine tails
·- ·see under <<Cat>>.
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cat and bagpipean society
A society which met at their office in the great western road: in their summons, published in the da...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat of nine tails
A scourge composed of nine strings of whip-cord, each string having nine knots.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat-with-two-tails
an earwig. Northum.
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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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cat o' nine tails
An instrument of punishment used on board ships in the navy; it is commonly of nine pieces of line o...
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Tackle House and Ticket Porters
This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...
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feeding-part of a tackle
That running through the sheaves, in opposition to the standing part.
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running part of a tackle
Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...
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standing part of a tackle or rope
The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...
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Cat and Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate
See Catherine Wheel Alley.
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to see how the cat jumps
A metaphorical expression meaning, to discover the secrets or designs of others.
We also say, in th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.