The Collaborative International Dictionary
Top-tackle
Top-tackle \Top"-tac`kle\, n. (Naut.) A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
Usage examples of "top-tackle".
Most of the starboard watch were sheltering under the break of the quarterdeck, and Barret Bonden left the group to shepherd him along past the double-breeched guns and under the double-griped boats on the skid-beams, past the galley and so by the hooked steps in the Surprise's broad top-tackle scuttle to a place as nearly comfortable, safe and dry as so bleak a station could afford.