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cringle
[ kring-guhl ]
noun
- an eye or grommet formed on the boltrope of a sail to permit the attachment of lines.
cringle
/ ˈ°ì°ùɪŋɡə±ô /
noun
- an eye at the edge of a sail, usually formed from a thimble or grommet
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cringle1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cringle1
Example Sentences
If a large cringle is needed, count an extra number of lays—5, 7, etc., always an odd number.
So did we, and, further, ran a line from the cringle in her foresail to the weather rigging.
When it became necessary to make sail, the men loosed the sails, but shortly found that no sheets were rove, and the bow-lines bent to the bunt line cringles.
A tackle with two hooks, one to hitch into a cringle of the main or fore sail in the bolt-rope, and the other to hitch into a strap spliced to the chess-tree.
He poised himself for a few moments on the crotch of the boom, clinging to the cringles of the luff—the short ropes with which the sail is reefed.
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