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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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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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• fore

  fŏre, inf., irregular, from the obsolete fuo, and equivalent to futurum esse; and fŏrem, fores, fore...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• fore

  fore, forem see sum. ...

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• Fore

  ·adv Formerly; previously; afore. II. Fore ·adv In or towards the bows of a ship. III. Fore ·vi Jo...

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• fore

  The distinguishing character of all that part of a ship's frame and machinery which lies near the st...

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fore part

  ·noun ·Alt. of <<Forepart>>. ...

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• Fore teeth

  ·pl of Fore tooth. ...

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• Fore tooth

  ·- One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an <<Incisor>>. ...

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• Fore-night

  ·noun The evening between twilight and bedtime. ...

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• Fore-topgallant

  ·adj Designating the mast, sail, yard, ·etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. ·see ...

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• Fore-topmast

  ·noun The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgall...

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• Fore-topsail

  ·noun ·see <<Sail>>. ...

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• Fore Court

  1) At Bridewell, Fleet Ditch (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) At Doctors'...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Fore Street

  East out of Redcross Street at No. 34 to No. 9 Finsbury Pavement (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• fore-handed

  To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• fore-end

  the beginning of a week, month, or year. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• fore-think

  to be sorry for ; to repent. North. ...

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• fore-bay

  A rising at a lock-gate flooring. Also, the galley or the sick-bay. ...

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• fore-body

  An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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• fore-bowline

  The bowline of the fore-sail. ...

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• fore-braces

  Ropes applied to the fore yard-arms to change the position of the fore-sail occasionally. ...

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• fore-cockpit

  See cockpit. ...

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• fore-course

  The fore-sail (which see). ...

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• fore-deck

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

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• fore-finger

  , or index-finger. The pointing finger, which was called shoot-finger by the Anglo-Saxons, from it...

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• fore-foot

  The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and ...

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• fore-goer

  The same as fore-ganger. ...

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• fore-gripe

  See gripe. ...

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• fore-guy

  A rope to the swinging-boom of the lower studding-sail. ...

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• fore-hammer

  The sledge-hammer which strikes the iron on the anvil first, if it be heavy work, but the hand-hamme...

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• fore-hold

  The part of the hold before the fore hatchway. ...

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• fore-hoods

  The foremost of the outside and inside planks of a vessel. ...

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• fore-hooks

  The same as breast-hooks (which see). ...

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• fore-lightroom

  See light-room. ...

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• fore-magazine

  See magazine. ...

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• fore-mast

  The forward lower-mast in all vessels. (See mast.) ...

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• fore-ness

  An old term for a promontory. ...

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• fore-peak

  The contracted part of a vessel's hold, close to the bow; close forward under the lower deck. ...

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• fore-rake

  That part of the hull which rakes beyond the fore-end of the keel. ...

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• fore-sail

  The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.) ...

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• fore-ship

  An archaic form of forecastle of a ship; it means the fore-part of a vessel. ...

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• fore-shrouds

  See shrouds. ...

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• fore-staff

  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...

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• fore-stage

  The old name for forecastle. ...

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• fore-stay

  See stay. ...

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• fore-tack

  Weather tack of the fore-sail hauled to the fore-boomkin when on a wind. ...

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• fore-thwart

  The seat of the bowman in a boat. ...

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• fore-top

  See top. ...

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• fore-tye

  See tye. ...

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• fore-yard

  (See yard.) For the yards, sails, rigging, &c., of the top-mast and topgallant-mast see those two ...

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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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• Fore Old Jewry

  By Aldgate (W. Stow, 1722, and Rev. of London, 1728). See Jewry Street. ...

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• Fore Street Avenue

  North out of Fore Street at No. 72 (P.O. Directory), with a branch West to Moor Lane and east to Moo...

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• fore-and-aft

  From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...

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• fore-and-after

  A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...

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• fore cat-harpings

  See cat-harpings. ...

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• fore-man afloat

  The dockyard officer in charge of the shipwrights working on board a ship not in dock. ...

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• fore-mast man

  From "before the mast." A private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship. ...

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• fore-reach, to

  To shoot ahead, or go past another vessel, especially when going in stays: to sail faster, reach bey...

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• fore-sheet horse

  An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...

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• fore-sheet traveller

  An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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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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• fore-and-aft sails

  Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...

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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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• fore-part of a ship

  The bay, or all before the fore-hatches. ...

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• fore-sheets of a boat

  The inner part of the bows, opposite to stern-sheets, fitted with gratings on which the bowman stand...

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• shoe of the fore-foot

  See fore-foot, gripe, horse. ...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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• Fore Side of St. Thomas Apostle

  In Queen Street, Cheapside. See Great St. Thomas Apostle. ...

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• fore-ganger of the chain bower cables

  Is a length of 15 fathoms of stouter chain, in consequence of greater wear and tear near the anchor,...

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• haul aboard the fore and main tacks

  This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...

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• room. she lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.

  Stealing poultry. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose