TACKLE

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 45

The Sea term for a pulley composed of two or more blocks. The rope is called the fall. The term appears to have been derived thus: — Gr. tjo;^^^/*; Lat. trochlea; Ital. taglia; Dutch taakel. {See Will is's Principles of'Mechanics, p. 198.) [s. 1217]