Word Meanings - TOP-TACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
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- TACKLE
The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used. Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. -- Fishing tackle. See under Fishing, a. -- Ground tackle , anchors, cables, etc. -- Gun tackle, the apparatus - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - HOIST
To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. Hoisting him into his father's throne. - HOISTAWAY
A mechanical lift. See Elevator. - HOISTWAY
An opening for the hoist, or - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - LOWER
Compar. of Low, a. - TOPMAST
The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast. - LOWER-CASE
Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. - TACKLED
Made of ropes tacked together. My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair. Shak. - LOWERING
Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky. - LOWERINGLY
In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - FORE-TOPMAST
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - UNTACKLE
To unbitch; to unharness. Tusser. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.