A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the force applied.
·adj Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...
Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See caisson. ...
The simple yet powerful water-press invented by Bramah, without which it would have been a puzzle to...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...
·add. ·- The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; — used in expressing the valu...
This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...
A misspelling of cant-purchase, or one used to turn a whale round during the operation of flensing. ...
A purchase fitted in cutters to the standing peak-halliards to sway it up taut. ...
All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...
The rope rove through purchase-blocks. ...
The addition of a tackle to a single rope, then termed a pendant, passing through a block applied to...
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the...
The act of disposing certain machines, so that, by their mutual effects, they may produce sufficient...
·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...
A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...