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Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Chockablock :: Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering..

Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.

Jeer :: "Jeer (n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship..

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..

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..

Overwind :: Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum..

Garnet :: Garnet (n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

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

Teagle :: Teagle (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc..

Corf :: Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

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

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

Hal''yard :: Hal'yard (v. t.) A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc..

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

Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.

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