Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > shackle
shackle
A U-shaped crook with an eye in each end, through which a screw bolt is passed. Variously used, and are often preferred to hooks. (Fig. 93.) There is a shackle at every fifteen fathoms of cable, so that by unshackling it the cable can be divided into many parts. Useful if the cable has to be slipped.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Sailing
- Category: General sailing
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
World Youth Day
World Youth Day is a religious event that is celebrated every three years. Open to youths from all around the world, World Youth Day aims to connect ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Marouane937
0
Terms
58
Blossaries
3
Followers
The World's Highest-Paid DJs 2013
Category: Entertainment 3 10 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Printers(127)
- Fax machines(71)
- Copiers(48)
- Office supplies(22)
- Scanners(9)
- Projectors(3)
Office equipment(281) Terms
- ISO standards(4935)
- Six Sigma(581)
- Capability maturity model integration(216)
Quality management(5732) Terms
- Alcohol & Hydroxybenzene & Ether(29)
- Pigments(13)
- Organic acids(4)
- Intermediates(1)
Organic chemicals(47) Terms
- General law(5868)
- Courts(823)
- Patent & trademark(449)
- DNA forensics(434)
- Family law(220)
- Legal aid (criminal)(82)
Legal services(8095) Terms
- General boating(783)
- Sailboat(137)
- Yacht(26)