tackle, takel, takil

[Sw. tackel =the tackle of a ship; tackla = to rig; Dan. takkel = tackle; takle =to rig; Dut. takel =a pulley, tackle; takelen to rig: Wel. taclan instrument, tool, tackle. Tackle is that which takes or grasps, holding the masts, ., firmly in their places, from Icel. taka; O. Sw.taka; Sw. tag a to take, to seize, to grasp, to hold. ( Skeat.)] I. Ordinary Language: 1. An apparatus, or that part of an apparatus, by which an object is grasped, moved, or operated; as, gun-tackle, ground-tackle, fishing-tackle, plow tackle, hoisting-tackle, reef-tackle, luff-tackle, .; espec., one or more pulleys or blocks rove with a single rope or fall, used for raising or lowering heavy weights and the like. *2. Instruments of action; weapons. "A shefe of peacock arwes bright and kene Under his belt he bare ful thriftily. Wel coude he dre e his takel yemanly." IMG:content-0748.png:[blocks in formation] II. Naut.. All the ropes of a ship, and the other furniture of the masts. A simple tackle consists of one or more blocks rove with a single rope. When two blocks are employed, one is the standing-block and the other the running-block. The rope is termed the fall, and runs over the sheaves. The fast end of the fall is the standing end, the other the running or hauling end. [FLEET, v., Β. ΙΙ. 2.; OVERHAUL, 2.] "If a wight, who hated trade, The sails and tackle for a ve el bought, Madman or fool he might be justly thought." Francis: Horace; Satires, ii. 3. tackle-block, s . A pulley over which a rope runs. It usually consists of a sheave or sheaves in a shell. tackle-board, 8. Rope - making : Aframe at the head of a rope-walk, containing the whirls to which yarns are attached to be twisted into strands.