reef-tackle span

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• Span

  ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Spin. II. Span ·vi To be matched, as horses. III. Span ·Impf of <<Spin>>. IV. ...

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• span

  1) A span of horses consists of two of nearly the same color, and otherwise nearly alike, which are ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• span

  A rope with both ends made fast, so that a purchase may be hooked to its bight. Also, a small line o...

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• Reef

  ·noun A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding...

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• reef

  I. n. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or...

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• reef

  A certain portion of a sail comprehended between the head of a sail and any of the reef-bands. The i...

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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...

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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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• Span-new

  ·adj Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. ...

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• span-clean

  Very clean; perfectly clean. ...

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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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• span-shackle

  A large bolt running through the forecastle and spar-deck beams, and forelocked before each beam, wi...

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• Reef-band

  ·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...

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• bag-reef

  A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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• balance-reef

  A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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• reef-band

  A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...

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• reef-cringles

  See cringle. ...

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• reef-earings

  See earings. ...

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• reef-knot

  Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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• reef-line

  Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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• reef-pendant

  A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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• reef-points

  Small flat pieces of plaited cordage or soft rope, tapering from the middle towards each end, whose ...

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• reef-tackles

  , are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...

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• shore reef

  The same as fringing reef. ...

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• spanish reef

  The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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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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• 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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• span of rigging

  The length of shrouds from the dead-eyes on one side, over the mast-head, to the dead-eyes on the ot...

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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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• 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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• spick and span new

  every part new. S. Some derive this from a spear, the head of which was vulgarly called the spike, t...

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• hands reef top-sails!

  The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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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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• span in the rigging, to

  To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...

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• shake out, a reef, to

  See let out, a reef, to ...

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• let out, a reef, to

  , or shake out, a reef, to To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...

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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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