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Gantline :: Gantline (n.) A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

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.

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..

Spandogs :: Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

Netting :: Netting (n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding..

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

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

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle..

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

Tug :: Tug (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed..

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..

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

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

Top-tackle :: Top-tackle (n.) A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

Hoisting :: Hoisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hois.

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

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

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

Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..

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