cringle

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English

A cringle (grommet) mounted into the sail

Alternative forms

crengle, crenkle

Noun

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cringle

Wikipedia

cringle (plural cringles)

(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."
A withe for fastening a gate.^[1]

Translations

a grommet for a sail

Finnish: purjerengas
German: Legel f, Lägel m, Lögel m
Hebrew: עָזֵק (he) m (azek), טַבַּעַת מִפְרָשׂ f (taba'at mifras)
Maori: takaore
Polish: luwers m

Verb

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

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

References

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

Anagrams

Clinger, clinger

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

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