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Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

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

Outrigger :: Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

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

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

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

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

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.

Parrel :: Parrel (n.) The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State..

Davit :: Davit (n.) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit..

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

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

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

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..

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

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

Hudge :: Hudge (n.) An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore.

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