cringle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of cringle
3 senses · 2 parts of speech
noun
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A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
“"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."”
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noun
-
A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
“"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."”
- A withe for fastening a gate.
verb
- (transitive)To fasten or attach with a cringle.
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