Word Meanings - FISH-TACKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• ANCHORETICANCHORETICAL
  Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.
• Anchoritess
  An anchoress.
• Blockish
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• ANCHORLIGHT
  The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and
• Anchorless
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• Blocklike
  Like a block; stupid.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• ANCHORSHOT
  A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
• Block tin
  See under Tin.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• ANCHORSPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• Anchored
  of Anchor

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