cringle

English
A cringle (grommet) mounted into the sail

Alternative forms
  • crengle, crenkle

Noun

cringle (plural cringles)

  1. (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
    • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
      "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."
  2. A withe for fastening a gate.[1]

Translations

Verb

cringle (third-person singular simple present cringles, present participle cringling, simple past and past participle cringled)

  1. (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.

See also

References
  1. “cringle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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