Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in the combinations of pulleys, as whip, gun-tackle, luff-tackle, jeer, viol, luff upon luff, runner, double-runner, capstan, windlass, &c.
·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·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 ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...
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...