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Fall
·vt To belong or appertain. II. Fall ·noun The act of felling or cutting down. III. Fall ·noun Dea...

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fall
The fall of the leaf; autumn; the time when the leaves drop from the trees.--Todd's Johnson. Webster...

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fall
A vertical descent of a river through a narrow rocky pass, or over a ledge, to the impediment of nav...

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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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fall! a fall!
The cry to denote that the harpoon has been effectively delivered into the body of a whale. ...

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Jaw-fall
·noun Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. ...

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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to. ...

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fair-fall
fare-well. Lane. ...

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cat-fall
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted. ...

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fall, to
A town or fortress is said to fall when it is compelled to surrender to besiegers. ...

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fall cloud
See stratus. ...

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fall-wind
A sudden gust. ...

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land-fall
Making the land. "A good land-fall" signifies making the land at or near the place to which the cour...

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let fall!
The order to drop a sail loosed from its gaskets, in order to set it. ...

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loose fall
The losing of a whale after an apparently good opportunity for striking it. ...

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wind-fall
A violent gust of wind rushing from coast-ranges and mountains to the sea. Also, some piece of good ...

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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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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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Fall of man
An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revol...

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fall astern, to
To lessen a ship's way so as to allow another to get ahead of her. To be driven backwards. ...

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fall back, to
To recede from any position previously occupied. ...

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fall calm, to
Speaking of the weather, implies a total cessation of the wind. ...

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fall down, to
To sail, drift, or be towed to some lower part nearer a river's mouth or opening. ...

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fall in, to
The order to form, or take assigned places in ranks. (See assembly.) ...

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fall of tide
An ebb. ...

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fall out, to
To increase in breadth. Among soldiers and small-arm men, to quit the ranks of a company. ...

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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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fall aboard of, to
To strike another vessel, or have a collision with it. Usually applied to the motion of a disabled s...

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fall foul of, to
To reprimand severely. (See fall aboard of, to.) ...

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fall in with, to
To meet, when speaking of a ship; to discover, when speaking of the land. ...

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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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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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