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Tackle
·noun To supply with tackle. II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem. II...

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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
tackle
A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England. TO TACKLE 1) To tackle a horse, is to h...

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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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Deck
·v A heap or store. II. Deck ·v The roof of a passenger car. III. Deck ·v A pack or set of playing...

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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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cat-tackle
A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...

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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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Half-deck
·noun ·see Half deck, under <<Deck>>. II. Half-deck ·noun A shell of the genus Crepidula; a boat sh...

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Quarter-deck
·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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Turret deck
·add. ·- A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vesse...

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Water deck
·- A covering of painting canvas for the equipments of a dragoon's horse. ...

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berth-deck
The 'tween decks. ...

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deck, to
A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails." ...

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deck-beams
See beams. ...

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deck-cargo
, otherwise deck-load (which see). ...

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deck-cleats
Pieces of wood temporarily nailed to the deck to secure objects in bad weather, as guns, deck-load, ...

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deck-hook
The compass timber bolted horizontally athwart a ship's bow, connecting the stem, timbers, and deck-...

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deck-house
An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...

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deck-load
Timber, casks, or other cargo not liable to damage from wet, stowed on the deck of merchant vessels....

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deck-nails
A kind of spike with a snug head, commonly made in a diamond form; they are single or double deck-na...

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deck-pipe
An iron pipe through which the chain cable is paid into the chain-locker. ...

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deck-pumps
In a steamer, are at the side of the vessel, worked with a lever by manual power, to supply addition...

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deck-seam
The interstices between the planks. ...

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deck-sheet
That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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deck-stopper
(See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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flush-deck
A continued floor laid from the stem to the stern, upon one range, without any break. ...

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forecastle-deck
The fore-part of the upper deck at a vessel's bows. ...

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fore-deck
That part from the fore-mast to the bows. ...

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grating-deck
A light movable deck, similar to the hatch-deck, but with open gratings. ...

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gun-deck
See decks. ...

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half-deck
A space between the foremost bulk-head of the steerage and the fore-part of the quarter-deck. In the...

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hatch-deck
Gun brigs had hatches instead of lower decks. ...

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hurricane-deck
A light deck over the saloon of some steamers. ...

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mess-deck
The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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quarter-deck
That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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spar-deck
This term is loosely applied, though properly it signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a ve...

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under deck
The floor of a cabin, or 'tween decks. ...

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upper deck
The highest of those decks which are continued throughout the whole length of a ship without falls o...

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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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deck-beam knees
The same as lodging-knees. ...

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deck standard-knees
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...

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double deck-nails
See deck-nails. ...

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jack's quarter-deck
The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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on deck there!
The cry to call attention from aloft or below. ...

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quarter-deck nettings
See netting. ...

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quarter-deck officers
A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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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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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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mate of the lower-deck
An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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mate of the main-deck
The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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walk the quarter-deck, to
A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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lee-side of the quarter-deck
Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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running out, and running in, the lower deck guns
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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