luff-tackle

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• Luff

  ·noun The roundest part of a ship's bow. II. Luff ·noun The side of a ship toward the wind. III. L...

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• luff

  , or loofe. The order to the helmsman, so as to bring the ship's head up more to windward. Sometim...

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• luff upon luff

  One luff-tackle applied to the fall of another, to afford an increase of purchase. ...

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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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• luff round

  , or luff a-lee. The extreme of the movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up ...

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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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• 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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• 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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• choke the luff

  To place suddenly the fall of a tackle close to the block across the jaw of the next turn of the rop...

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• keep your luff

  An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

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• luff and lie

  A very old sea-term for hugging the wind closely. ...

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• luff a-lee

  See luff round ...

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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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• luff and touch her!

  Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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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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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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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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