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Hoisting :: Hoisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hois.

Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

Gantline :: Gantline (n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening..

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

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

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

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..

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.

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

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

Top-tackle :: Top-tackle (n.) A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

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