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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.

 

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