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

Snow :: Snow (n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..

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

Corf :: Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

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

Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..

Tye :: Tye (n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..

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..

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

Catfall :: Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

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

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