block and tackle

English

Noun

block and tackle (plural block and tackles or blocks and tackles)

1. A system in which a rope, cable, or chain (the tackle) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks, one fixed and one attached to a load, which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.

   Synonyms: polyspast, muffle, hoisting-tackle

   Hypernym: hoist

   Coordinate terms: come-along, winch

2. (euphemistic) The underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt.

Translations

system of several pulleys

• Arabic: مُحْل (ar) m (muḥl), مَحَالَة f (maḥāla)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: полиспа́ст m (polispást)
• Czech: kladkostroj m
• Danish: talje c
• Finnish: väkipyörästö (fi), taljasto
• French: polyspaste (fr) m, moufle (fr) f
• Galician: aparello (gl) m
• German: Flaschenzug (de) m, Zugwerk n
• Greek: πολύσπαστο (el) n (polýspasto)

  Ancient: πολύσπαστον n (polúspaston), ἄρμενα n pl (ármena), τροχιλεία f (trokhileía)

• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: גַּלְגֶּלֶת (he) f, מַעֲרֶכֶת גַּלְגִּלּוֹת (he) f (ma'arekhet galgilot)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: csigasor (hu)
• Icelandic: talía f
• Ingrian: talja
• Italian: polispasto m, paranco (it) m
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: polyspaston n, trochlea f
• Ligurian: paranco m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: talje (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: talje f

• Polish: wielokrążek (pl) m
• Portuguese: bloco de polias m
• Romanian: scripete (ro) m
• Russian: полиспа́ст (ru) m (polispást), таль (ru) (talʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̏лотӯрнӣк m коту̀рача f

  Latin: kȍlotūrnīk (sh) m, kotùrača (sh) f

• Spanish: polipasto (es) m, polispasto m, mufla (es) f, aparejo (es) m
• Swedish: talja (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish:

  Modern: palanga (tr)

  Ottoman: پلانقه (palanka)

• Ukrainian: поліспа́ст (polispást)
• Vietnamese: pa lăng

See also

• (garment combination): belt and braces
• block tackle

References

• block and tackle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:block and tackle on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons