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Cringle
CRINGLE, n. [See Crank and Cringe.]
1. A withe for fastening a gate. [Local.]
2. In marine language, a hole in the boltrope of a sail, formed by intertwisting the division of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself, and through the strand of the colt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and takes the shape of a ring. Its use is to receive the ends of the ropes by which the sail is drawn up to its yard, or to extend the leech by the bow-line-bridles.
Iron-cringles or hanks, are open rings running on the stays, to which the heads of the stay sails are made fast.
cringle appears in definitions for these words:
Buntlines Crengle Crenkle Crenulate Down-haul Reef-tackle Reeve
Buntlines Crengle Crenkle Crenulate Down-haul Reef-tackle Reeve
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