TACKLE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 31

The Sea term for a pulley composed of two or inure, blocks. The rope is called the fall. The term appears to have been derived thus: Gr. rpoxaha; Lat. trochlea; Ital. taglia; Dutch taakel. (See Will is's Principles of Mechanics, p. 198.) [s. 1227]