Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a tackle used for fishing or raising an anchor to the gunwale of a ship. To this tackle a pendant is attached, with a large iron hook, called the fish-hook, fastened to its end.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the
fish-block .
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Examples
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Moral: A hook and line is good enough fish-tackle for any honest man.
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Moral: A hook and line is good enough fish-tackle for any honest man.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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The fish-tackle was got up, fish-davit rigged out, and after two or three hours of hard and cold work, both the anchors were ready for instant use, a couple of kedges got up, a hawser coiled away upon the fore-hatch, and the deep-sea-lead-line overhauled and got ready.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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