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GROUND-TACKLE
GROUND-TACKLE, (amarrages, Fr.) a general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are employed in mooring, or otherwise securing a ship in a road or harbour; as cables, hawsers, tow-lines, warps, and buoy-ropes.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 141, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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