ground-tackle

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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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• Ground

  ·noun The pit of a theater. II. Ground ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Grind. III. Ground ·vt To lay, set, or r...

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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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• 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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• 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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• Burying ground

  ·- ·Alt. of Burying place. ...

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• Middle-ground

  ·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. ...

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• Teeing ground

  ·add. ·- The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole. ...

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• Winter-ground

  ·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...

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• Fallow-ground

  The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed am...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Parched ground

  (Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun o...

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• Artillery Ground

  See Old Artillery Ground. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Ground Rentes

  Tenements so called in High Holborn 1564 (Lond. I. p.m. II 142, 96). Not further identified. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• ground sweat

  A grave. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ground squirrel

  A hog, or pig. SEA TERM. ...

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• ground-berry

  i.q. cranberry (q.v.).: See cranberry, native ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-bird

  n. name given in Australia to anybird of the genus Cinclosoma. The species are – – Chestnut-backed ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-dove

  n. 1) Tasmanian namefor the Spotted Ground-bird (q.v.). 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-lark

  n. 1) In New Zealand, a bird alsocalled by the Maori names, Pihoihoi and Hioi. 1888. W. L. Buller,...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-parrakeet

  n. See parrakeet and pezoporus. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-parrot

  n. 1) The bird Psittacuspulchellus, Shaw. For the Ground Parrot of New Zealand,see Kakapo. 1793. G...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-thrush

  n. name of birds found all overthe world. The Australian species are – – Geocincla lunulata, Lath. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ground-sill

  the threshold of a door. C. Ground ivy. ...

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

• hover ground

  light ground. S. ...

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

• vantage-ground

  See advantage ...

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• break-ground

  Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom. On shore it means to begin the works for ...

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• fishing-ground

  Any bank or shoal frequented by fish. ...

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• foul ground

  Synonymous with foul bottom. ...

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• ground, to

  To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident. ♦ To stri...

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• ground-bait

  , or groundling. A loach or loche. ...

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• ground-gru

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ground-gudgeon

  A little fish, the Cobitis barbatula. ...

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• ground-ice

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ground-plot

  See ichnography. ...

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• ground-sea

  The West Indian name for the swell called rollers, or in Jamaica the north sea. It occurs in a calm,...

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• ground-strake

  A name sometimes used for garboard-strake. ...

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• ground-swell

  A sudden swell preceding a gale, which rises along shore, often in fine weather, and when the sea be...

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• ground-tier

  The lowest water-casks in the hold before the introduction of iron tanks. It also implies anything e...

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• ground-timbers

  Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...

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• ground-ways

  The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...

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• losing ground

  Dropping to leeward while working; the driftage. ...

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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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• Bethlem Burying Ground

  On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New Broad Street, on the western boundary of Bisho...

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• New Artillery Ground

  In Moorfields. So named to distinguish it from the Old Ground near St. Mary Spittel, where formerly ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Old Artillery Ground

  Extends from Middlesex Street south to Spital Square north, east of Bishopsgate Street, outside the ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• (St.) Sepulchre's Burying Ground

  On the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without, north of Smithfield Market, east of Durham Yard...

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• go-by-ground

  a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person. ...

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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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• go by the ground

  A little short person, man or woman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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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