Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tackle hanging amidships for hoisting in or out heavy weights, and formerly secured to the forestay or mainstay, but now generally attached to a pendant from the topmast-head.
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Examples
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If the gun is to be taken out over all, the stay-tackle is to be substituted for the garnet, only it is to be hooked to the same end of the slings as the gun-purchase, and the lashing on the slings is to be passed around the chase of the gun, as near the trunnions as possible, without being in the way of the brackets.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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John Effingham now stood at one of the stay-tackle falls, and Paul at the other, when the latter made a signal to ease away.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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The stay-tackle falls were let go entirely, and all on board saw, with an exultation that words can scarcely describe, the important craft suspended directly over the sea.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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