tackle fall

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tackle fall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Noun

tackle fall (plural tackle falls)

  1. (nautical) The rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is applied.
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