purchase-blocks

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• Purchase

  ·vt To buy for a price. II. Purchase ·vi To acquire wealth or property. III. Purchase ·vt To expia...

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• purchase

  Any mechanical power which increases the force applied. It is of large importance to nautical men in...

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• blocks

  The several transverse pieces or logs of timber, piled in plane, on which a ship is built, or to pla...

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• Hire purchase

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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• Year's purchase

  ·add. ·- The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; — used in expressing the valu...

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• cant-purchase

  This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...

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• hydraulic purchase

  A machine for drawing up vessels on a slip, in which the pumping of water is used to multiply the fo...

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• kent-purchase

  A misspelling of cant-purchase, or one used to turn a whale round during the operation of flensing. ...

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• peak purchase

  A purchase fitted in cutters to the standing peak-halliards to sway it up taut. ...

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• purchase-falls

  The rope rove through purchase-blocks. ...

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• runner-purchase

  The addition of a tackle to a single rope, then termed a pendant, passing through a block applied to...

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• back-blocks

  n. 1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...

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• bee-blocks

  Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through...

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• bilge-blocks

  See sliding bilge-blocks. ...

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• blocks, fixed

  See fixed blocks. ...

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• bullock-blocks

  Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in or...

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• cant-blocks

  The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing. ...

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• cheek-blocks

  Usually fitted to the fore-topmast head, for the purpose of leading the jib-stay, halliards, &c. ...

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• clump-blocks

  Those that are made thicker or stronger than ordinary blocks. (See block, tack-and-sheet.) ...

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• fixed blocks

  Solid pieces of oak let through the sides of the ship, and fitted with sheaves, to lead the tacks, s...

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• hanging-blocks

  These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...

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• hawse-blocks

  Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...

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• jeer-blocks

  Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...

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• jewel-blocks

  Are attached to eye-bolts on those yards where studding-sails are hoisted, and carry these sails to ...

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• keel-blocks

  Short log ends of timbers on which the keel of a vessel rests while building or repairing, affording...

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• leading-blocks

  The several blocks used for guiding the direction of any purchase, as hook, snatch, or tail blocks. ...

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• pedestal-blocks

  Synonymous with plumber-blocks (which see). ...

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• plumber-blocks

  These, in a marine steam-engine, are Y's, wherein are fixed the bushes, in which the shafts or pinio...

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• quarter-blocks

  Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...

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• running-blocks

  Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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• span-blocks

  Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to ha...

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• speck-blocks

  See flense, to. ...

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• transporting-blocks

  Two snatch-blocks, fitted one on each side above the taffrail, to admit a hawser, when transporting ...

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• two-blocks

  The same as chock-a-block (which see). ...

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• Hire purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...

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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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• raising a purchase

  The act of disposing certain machines, so that, by their mutual effects, they may produce sufficient...

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• iron-bound blocks

  Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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• sliding bilge-blocks

  Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...

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• Hire and purchase agreement

  ·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...

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• purchase a commission, to

  A practice in our army, which has been aptly termed the "buying of fetters;" it is the obtaining pre...

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