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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..

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

Hoise :: Hoise (v. t.) To hoist.

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..

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

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

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..

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

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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

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