Definition of cringle Cringle

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We found 9 definitions of cringle from 7 different sources.

What does cringle mean?

Noun Plural: cringles
cringle - fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
		eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet
		holdfast, fastener, fastening, fixing restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

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cringle (Noun)
A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
cringle (Noun)
A withe for fastening a gate.

cringle (n.)
A withe for fastening a gate.
cringle (n.)
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

cringle
kring′gl, n. a small piece of rope worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, and containing a metal ring or thimble. [Teut.; cf. Ger. kringel.]

cringle
ancet, a small hole made in the bolt-rope of a sail, by inter-twisting one of the divisions of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself and through the strands of the bolt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and assumes the shape of a wreath or ring. See plate II. fig. 25, where a, b, represents part of the bolt-rope of a sail; and c, the cringle.
The use of the cringle is generally to contain the end of some rope, which is fastened thereto, for the purpose of drawing up the sail to its yard, or of extending the skirts by the means of bridles to stand upon a side-wind. The word seems to be derived from krinckelen, (Belg.) to run into twists.

cringle
A short piece of rope worked grommet fashion into the bolt-rope of a sail, and containing a metal ring or thimble. The use of the cringle is generally to hold the end of some rope, which is fastened thereto for the purpose of drawing up the sail to its yard, or extending the skirts or leech by means of bowline bridles, to stand upon a side-wind. The word seems to be derived from the old English crencled, or circularly formed. Cringles should be made of the strands of new bolt-rope. Those for the reef and reef-tackle pendant are stuck through holes made in the tablings.