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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...

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tackle
A horse's harness. Provincial in various parts of England. TO TACKLE 1) To tackle a horse, is to h...

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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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Quarter
·vt Friendship; amity; concord. II. Quarter ·vi To <<Lodge>>; to have a temporary residence. III. ...

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quarter
This term literally implies one quarter of the ship, but in common parlance applies to 45° abaft the...

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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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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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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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Quarter round
·- An <<Ovolo>>. ...

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Quarter-deck
·noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ...

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Quarter-saw
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boar...

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Three-quarter
·adj Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; — said of portraitures. ...

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staring quarter
An ox cheek. ...

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last quarter
See quarter, last. ...

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quarter, first
When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, 90° from the sun towards the east, she is in the first...

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quarter, last
When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, and her angular distance from the sun 90°, but towards...

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quarter-badge
Artificial galleries; a carved ornament near the stern of those vessels which have no quarter-galler...

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quarter-bill
A list containing the different stations to which the officers and crew are quartered in time of act...

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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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quarter-boat
Any boat is thus designated which is hung to davits over the ship's quarter. ...

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quarter-cask
One-half of a hogshead, or 28 imperial gallons. ...

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quarter-cloths
Long pieces of painted canvas, extended on the outside of the quarter-netting, from the upper part o...

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quarter-davits
Pieces of iron or timber with sheaves or blocks at their outer ends, projecting from a vessel's quar...

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quarter-deck
That part of the upper deck which is abaft the main-mast. (See decks, and jack's quarter-deck.) ...

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quarter-deckers
Those officers more remarkable for etiquette than for a knowledge of seamanship. ...

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quarter-deckish
Punctilious, severe. ...

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quarter-fast
See fast. ...

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quarter-flood
See flood. ...

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quarter-gallery
A sort of balcony with windows on the quarters of large ships. (See gallery.) ...

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quarter-galley
A Barbary cruiser. ...

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quarter-guard
A small guard posted in front of each battalion in camp. ...

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quarter-gunner
See gunner. ...

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quarter-ladder
From the quarter-deck to the poop. ...

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quarter-man
A dockyard officer employed to superintend a certain number of workmen. ...

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quarter-master
A petty officer, appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the ho...

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quarter-nettings
The places allotted on the quarters for the stowage of hammocks, which, in action, serve to arrest m...

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quarter-pieces
Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...

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quarter-point
A subdivision of the compass-card, equal to 2° 48′ 45″ of the circle. ...

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quarter-ports
Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...

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quarter-rails
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...

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quarter-sights
The engraved index on the base-rings of cannon in quarter degrees from point-blank to two or three d...

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quarter-slings
Are supports attached to a yard or other spar at one or both sides of (but not in) its centre. ...

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quarter-stanchions
Strong iron stanchions in a square-sterned vessel, connecting the main-rail with the taffrail; used ...

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quarter-timbers
The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...

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quarter-watch
A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...

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quarter-wind
Blowing upon a vessel's quarter, abaft the main-shrouds. ...

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quarter-shot
See water-shot ...

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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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jack's quarter-deck
The deck elevation forward in some vessels, often called a top-gallant forecastle. ...

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on the quarter
Being in that position with regard to a ship, as to be included in the angles which diverge from rig...

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quarter-deck nettings
See netting. ...

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quarter-deck officers
A term implying the executive in general; officers whose places in action are there, in command. ...

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quarter-master general
Is the head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking,...

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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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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along. ...

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top-gallant quarter-boards
, or top-gallant bulwarks. See quarter-boards. ...

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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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first quarter of the moon
See quarter, first. ...

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walk the quarter-deck, to
A phrase signifying to take the rank of an officer. ...

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lee-side of the quarter-deck
Colloquially called the midshipman's parade. ...

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