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Truss
·noun A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. II. Truss ·noun To bind or pack close; to make int...

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truss
The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and are bowsed taut when...

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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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Queen truss
·- A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss. ...

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truss-hoops
Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, b...

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truss-parrel
That part of a rope-truss which goes round the yard. ...

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truss-pendant
That part of a rope-truss into which the truss-tackle blocks are seized. ...

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truss-pieces
The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing. ...

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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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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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truss up, to
To brail up a sail suddenly; to toss up a bunt. ...

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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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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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