Sliding Rings

The rings attached to the pole-yoke branches, a part, of the field-limber. … A leather strap attached to a musket serving to support it acro -the soldier's back; also a weapon much in use before the introduction of fire-arms, formed of a piece of leather, with a round hole in the middle, and two cords of about i yard in length; a construction employed to hoist horses on board a ship.