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Webster 1913 Edition
Cringle
Crin′gle
(krĭṉ′g’l)
, Noun.
[Icel.
kringla
orb; akin to kring
around, and to D. kring
circle, and to E. cringe
, crank
.] 1.
A withe for fastening a gate.
2.
(Naut.)
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; – usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cringle
CRINGLE
,Noun.
1.
A withe for fastening a gate. [Local.]2.
In marine language, a hole in the boltrope of a sail, formed by intertwisting the division of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself, and through the strand of the colt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and takes the shape of a ring. Its use is to receive the ends of the ropes by which the sail is drawn up to its yard, or to extend the leech by the bow-line-bridles.Iron-cringles or hanks, are open rings running on the stays, to which the heads of the stay sails are made fast.