Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tackle in which a chain is used in place of a rope; a chain-hoist: a small hoisting-device much used in shops for raising heavy pieces by manual labor. It is usually a differential-geared tackle.
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Examples
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Instead of being fitted with chain-tackle, the watch of this superior person maintained its connection with the open air by means of a broad watered ribbon plummeted straight down his leg with a seal hardly inferior in size to a deep-sea lead.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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A chain-tackle was suspended over a pulley from the cross-beam connecting the tops of the kingposts of the bridge, which was worked by a winch-machine with wheel, pinion, and barrel, round which last the chain was wound.
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It was hot and, for the most part, strangely quiet in the bottom of the valley since the hammers had stopped, but now and then an order was followed by a tramp of feet and the rattle of chain-tackle.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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They were forced to use such material as they could find, and the gang of peons who handled the chain-tackle made a poor substitute for a steam engine.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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A chain-tackle was suspended over a pulley from the cross-beam connecting the tops of the kingposts of the bridge, which was worked by a winch-machine with wheel, pinion, and barrel, round which last the chain was wound.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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