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Frapping turns: A number of crossing turns in a Independent wire rope core (IWRC): A type of
lashing or seizing or in the leads of a tackle, which wire heart for a wire rope, the heart constructed so
serve both to tighten and secure the piece. that it is itself a miniature wire rope. The IWRC is
stronger and more resistant to crushing than fiber
Galvanized wire: Wire coated with zinc to retard hearts and other wire hearts.
corrosion.
Irish pennants: Cordage ends that are frayed or
Gang: A set of rigging for a mast or yard. raveled due to neglect.
Grades, wire rope: Classification of wire rope by Jute: A natural-fiber material of low breaking
its breaking strength. In order of their increasing strength, sometimes used for cheap rope and
breaking strengths the unalloyed steels are: iron, sometimes as a heart for four-stranded fiber ropes
traction, mild plow steel, plow steel, improved and wire ropes.
plow steel, and extra improved plow steel. Alloyed
steels vary widely in breaking strength depending Kink: A sharp bend in a rope, wire rope, or rod
on their composition, but most of the alloys used in that permanently distorts and thus weakens it.
yacht rigging have approximately the strength of
improved plow steel. Knot: Any complication in a rope.

Grommet: An endless wire or fiber rope, usually Lanyard: 1. A small rope for making fast the
made from one continuous strand. end of a piece of standing rigging. 2. Handles,
frequently ornamentally decorated, for tools, bags,
Ground tackle: A general term for all hawsers, watches, or any other small item you don’t want to
chains, cables, buoy ropes, and warps employed lose overboard.
in anchoring, mooring, and sometimes in towing a
vessel. Lash: To secure or contain an object or objects by
binding them with rope.
Halyard: Rope for hoisting a sail or yard.
Lay: 1. The direction of the strand twist or lead in
Handsomely: Slowly, carefully, gently; as, “to a rope. 2. The firmness or angle of that twist.
lower away handsomely.”
Lead: The direction of a rope, or the direction of a
Handy-billy: A small tackle kept handy for small strand in a knot.
jobs.

Haul, to: To pull by hand on a rope or tackle.
Leads: The parts of a tackle between the two
Hitch: A knot that secures a rope to another blocks, as opposed to the standing part and the fall.
object, such as a piling, rail, ring, etc., or to its own
standing part, or to the standing part of another Let go, to: To cast off.
rope. Line: In general parlance, a length of rope put to a

Hockle: A capsizing of the strands in a rope or specific use.
wire rope, resulting from excessive twisting or Long-jawed rope: Old rope that has stretched and
unbalanced manufacture. lost much of its twist.

Hoist, to: To lift. Loop: A 360-degree turn made in rope, but not
around anything. See Turn, Round Turn.

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