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

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

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

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..

Hoistway :: Hoistway (n.) An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom..

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

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

Halse :: Halse (v. t.) To haul; to hoist.

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

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..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit..

Flagstaff :: Flagstaff (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

Hoist :: Hoist (p. p.) Hoisted.

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

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

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

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..

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]..

Tye :: Tye (n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered..

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

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