cringle

English

A cringle (grommet) mounted into the sail

Alternative forms

• crengle, crenkle

Noun

cringle (plural cringles)

1. (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

     "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."

2. A withe for fastening a gate.

Translations

a grommet for a sail

• Finnish: purjerengas
• German: Legel f, Lägel m, Lögel m
• Hebrew: עָזֵק (he) m (azek), טַבַּעַת מִפְרָשׂ f (taba'at mifras)
• Maori: takaore
• Polish: luwers m

Verb

cringle (third-person singular simple present cringles, present participle cringling, simple past and past participle cringled)

1. (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.

See also

• cringle-crangle

Anagrams

• Clinger, clinger