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double tackle

noun

  1. a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.


double tackle

noun

  1. a lifting or pulling tackle in which a rope is passed around the twin pulleys of a pair of pulley blocks in sequence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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In the darkness she passed up a double tackle and a coil of rope.

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