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Cringle

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.

    ""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. 2
    fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines wordnet
  3. 3
    A withe for fastening a gate.
Verb
  1. 1
    To fasten or attach with a cringle. transitive

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