·noun A withe for fastening a gate.
II. Cringle ·noun An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail;
— usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, ·etc.
A short piece of rope worked grommet fashion into the bolt-rope of a sail, and containing a metal ri...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An eye worked into the leech-rope of a sail; usually in that of a fore-sail two, a main-sail three, ...
An eye worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, to receive a buntline. This is only in top-gallant sails...
A piece of wood in the form of a ring, which answers the purpose of an iron thimble; it is seldom us...
In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attache...