Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a purchase composed of a double and a single block, the standing end of the rope being fastened to the single block, and the fall coming from the double: variously used as occasion may require.
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Examples
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Then they clapped a luff-tackle on the fall, and by heaving on this, nippering and fleeting up, they lifted the fore-hatch and forecastle scuttle out of water -- which was enough.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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In a few minutes, I had a string of the savages hold of the mast-rope, forward, a luff-tackle being applied.
Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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