luff tackle
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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luff tackle, a
purchase which has a single and a double
block, the
standing part of the rope being secured to the
strop of the single block, and the hauling part coming from the double block. It increases the power by four times when
rove to
advantage. It was originally used for hauling down the
tack of a sail in a
fore-and-aft rig to make the
luff taut, but the term is now used to describe any tackle rove through a single and a double block.
Luff upon luff, one luff tackle hooked onto the
fall of another in order to double the power.
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