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

Guy :: Guy (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards..

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

Top-rope :: Top-rope (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes..

Snow :: Snow (n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted..

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

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

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

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

Cathead :: Cathead (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured..

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

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

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