What is "tackles"

Usage examples of "tackles".

Meanwhile the gun crews knocked out the wedges and, heaving at the tackles, ran out the culver ins On either side of the lower deck there were eight, each loaded with a bucketful of powder and a ball.

The gunners strode from cannon to cannon, pushing in the elevation wedges and ordering the training tackles adjusted.

They cheered him even as they heaved on the gun tackles and nocked their arrows.

CHAPTER 48 The First Lowering The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.

For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.

It is this decapitated end of the head, also, which is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that quarter.

The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy tackles in readiness for the whales.

As good luck would have it, they had had a whale alongside a day or two previous, and the great tackles were still aloft, and the massive curved blubber-hook, now clean and dry, was still attached to the end.