cringle
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Alternative forms
- crengle, crenkle
Noun
cringle (plural cringles)
- (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
- "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."
- A withe for fastening a gate.[1]
Translations
a grommet for a sail
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Verb
cringle (third-person singular simple present cringles, present participle cringling, simple past and past participle cringled)
- (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.
See also
References
- “cringle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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