English
Noun
block and tackle (plural block and tackles or blocks and tackles)
- A system in which a rope, cable, or chain (the tackle) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks, one fixed and one attached to a load, which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.
- Synonyms: polyspast, muffle, hoisting-tackle
- Hypernym: hoist
- Coordinate terms: come-along, winch
- (euphemistic) The underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt.
Translations
system of several pulleys
- Arabic: مُحْل (ar) m (muḥl), مَحَالَة f (maḥāla)
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: полиспа́ст m (polispást)
- Czech: kladkostroj m
- Danish: talje c
- Finnish: väkipyörästö (fi), taljasto
- French: polyspaste (fr) m, moufle (fr) f
- Galician: aparello (gl) m
- German: Flaschenzug (de) m, Zugwerk n
- Greek: πολύσπαστο (el) n (polýspasto)
- Ancient: πολύσπαστον n (polúspaston), ἄρμενα n pl (ármena), τροχιλεία f (trokhileía)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: גַּלְגֶּלֶת (he) f, מַעֲרֶכֶת גַּלְגִּלּוֹת (he) f (ma'arekhet galgilot)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: csigasor (hu)
- Icelandic: talía f
- Ingrian: talja
- Italian: polispasto m, paranco (it) m
- Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
- Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: polyspaston n, trochlea f
- Ligurian: paranco m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: talje (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: talje f
- Polish: wielokrążek (pl) m
- Portuguese: bloco de polias m
- Romanian: scripete (ro) m
- Russian: полиспа́ст (ru) m (polispást), таль (ru) (talʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̏лотӯрнӣк m коту̀рача f
- Latin: kȍlotūrnīk (sh) m, kotùrača (sh) f
- Spanish: polipasto (es) m, polispasto m, mufla (es) f, aparejo (es) m, jarcia (es) f, cordaje (es) m, cordelería f
- Swedish: talja (sv)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish:
- Modern: palanga (tr)
- Ottoman: پلانقه (palanka)
- Ukrainian: поліспа́ст (polispást)
- Vietnamese: pa lăng
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