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Glossocomon :: Glossocomon (n.) A kind of hoisting winch.

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Catfall :: Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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