Tackle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To supply with tackle.

II. Tackle ·noun To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.

III. Tackle ·noun The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.

IV. Tackle ·noun To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to Harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.

V. Tackle ·noun To Seize; to lay hold of; to Grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.

VI. Tackle ·noun Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.

VII. Tackle ·noun Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.

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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...

    Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

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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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