cringle

plural cringles · alternative crengle · alternative crenkle

1. nauticalA 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."

   1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

2. A withe for fastening a gate.

present singular third person cringles · participle present cringling · participle past cringled · past cringled · alternative crengle · alternative crenkle

1. transitivenauticalTo fasten or attach with a cringle.