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Outrigger :: Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle..

Hoist :: Hoist (v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering..

Tug :: Tug (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed..

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Hoise :: Hoise (v. t.) To hoist.

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc..

Garnet :: Garnet (n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..

Parrel :: Parrel (n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

Spandogs :: Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards..

Hoist :: Hoist (p. p.) Hoisted.

Hal''yard :: Hal'yard (v. t.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc..

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle..

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