rolling-tackles

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• Rolling

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Roll>>. II. Rolling ·adj Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or ro...

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• rolling

  Undulating; varied by small hills and valleys, as land; so used in the Western States.--Worcester. ...

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• rolling

  That oscillatory motion by which the waves rock a ship from side to side. The larger part of this di...

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• heel-tackles

  The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them....

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• long-tackles

  Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...

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• port-tackles

  Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...

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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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• relieving tackles

  Those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller, in order to steer by in bad weather or in action,...

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• rudder-tackles

  Attached to the rudder-pendants. ...

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• yard-tackles

  Tackles attached to the fore and main yards of a ship, whereby, with the assistance of the stay-tack...

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• Rolling-pin

  ·noun A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and...

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• log-rolling

  In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days fo...

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• rolling prairie

  The following excellent definition of this term is from the pen of Judge Hall: "The vast plains or ...

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• rolling-chock

  , or jaw-piece. Similar to that of a gaff, fastened to the middle of an upper yard, to steady it. ...

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• rolling-cleat

  Synonymous with rolling-chock. ...

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• rolling-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; ...

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• rolling-swell

  That heaving of the sea where the waves are very distant, forming deep troughs between. ...

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• down-haul tackles

  Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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• rolling down to st. helena

  Running with a flowing sheet by the trade-wind. ...

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