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Make fast: 1. To secure a rope with a hitch or Pendant: A standing rope or wire rope to which a
hitches. 2. To finish off a belay with a single hitch. tackle is hooked, seized, or shackled.

Manila: A rope material made from Abaca leaves. Pennant: The reward for winning a baseball
Manila is stronger than jute, and is still used for championship.
some theatrical and boat rigging.
Preformed: A wire rope in which the strands
Marl, to: To secure or contain with a series of are shaped to a permanent helix. The strands of
Marling Hitches. preformed wire will not spring apart when cut.

Marlingspike: A conical, metal tool employed in Prestressing: Stressing a rope or wire rope before
just about every procedure of traditional rigging, use in order to remove constructional stretch.
especially for tightening, loosening, separating,
pounding, and toggling. Purchase: A mechanical advantage gained with
block and tackle or winch.
Marry, to: To intermesh the strands of two rope
ends preparatory to splicing. Ravel: To fray, untwist, or unbraid. “Unravel” is a
redundant term.
Meathook: A short stub of broken yard projecting
from the surface of a wire rope. Meathooks are Reel: The flanged spool on which rope or wire rope
usually the result of metal fatigue. is wound for storage and shipment.

Modulus of elasticity: A mathematical quantity Reeve: To pass the end of a rope or wire rope
giving the ratio, within the elastic limit, of a through any hole or opening.
defined stress on a rope or wire rope to the Reeve off: To reeve through blocks for running
corresponding elongation. rigging.

Nominal strength: The published or advertised Riding turns: In seizings, whippings, and lashings,
design strength of a rope or wire rope. This is a second tier of turns over the base of round turns.
usually though not always less than the actual
breaking strength of the rope. Rigging: The art of using knots and lines either to
move things or keep them from moving.
Overhaul: 1. To separate the blocks of a tackle
preparatory to another haul. 2. To eliminate kinks Rope: Any cordage one inch or more in
in a line by recoiling, stretching, or flaking. circumference.

Palm: A narrow leather strap with thumb hole Round turn: A 360-degree turn made with a rope
and, affixed next to the thumb hole, a dimpled around an object. See Loop, Turn.
“iron.” The palm is worn around the palm of the
hand as an aid to pushing needles through heavy Running rigging: All rigging that is rove through
cloth or leather, the blunt end of the needle being blocks.
braced against the iron.
Safety factor: The ratio of breaking strength to
Parcel: To wrap with canvas or tape the length maximum expected stress.
of a rope or wire rope, in order to produce a Seizing: A means of binding two or more ropes
waterproof base for service.
together with cordage or seizing wire.
Part, to: To break.

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