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

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..

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]..

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

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..

Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

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

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

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

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

Fall :: Fall (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

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

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..

Can Hook :: Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves..

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..

Halse :: Halse (v. t.) To haul; to hoist.

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

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt..

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