topping lift
a line for raising and supporting a spar, as a yard or boom.
Origin of topping lift
1- Also called lift.
Words Nearby topping lift
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How to use topping lift in a sentence
And being on the top-gallant-yard, the topping-lift broke, and the end I was on went down like the end of a beam.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-GouldA wooden derrick (D), provided with topping lift and guys, was mounted on the foremast by means of a band and goose-neck.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonJerry always remembers things like that and can talk about reef-cringles and topping-lift as if he really knew what they were for.
Us and the Bottleman | Edith Ballinger PriceFor the topping lift use blue-fish line; and for the running rigging, the same.
Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 | VariousThe jib-halyard had a block on the sail, and then, with the topping lift, came down on the port side.
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" | John MacGregor
British Dictionary definitions for topping lift
nautical a line or cable for raising the end of a boom that is away from the mast
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