Those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller, in order to steer by in bad weather or in action, when any accident has happened to the wheel or tiller-rope.
·adj Serving or tending to relieve. II. Relieving ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Relieve>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them....
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...
Used to prevent the yards from swaying to and fro under heavy rolling motion. ...
Attached to the rudder-pendants. ...
Tackles attached to the fore and main yards of a ship, whereby, with the assistance of the stay-tack...
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...