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plural cringles
(nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc. quotations examples
"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
A withe for fastening a gate. examples
third-person singular simple present cringles, present participle cringling, simple past and past participle cringled
(nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle. examples