[
UK
/kɹˈɪŋɡəl/
]
NOUN
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
How To Use cringle In A Sentence
- To make it easier to use the hooks, you can lash two stainless steel rings through the cringles at each tack reef location.
- Along that edge of the sail there will be a series of cringles, or large stainless grommets.
- The line may also pass through the cringles on the sail's luff.
- Consists of a grommet made of rope double the size of the gun-tackle falls, with two cringles worked into it for the frapping lashing, which will be of stuff half the size of the tackle-falls. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
- The Shearwater has three sets of cringles numbered 1, 2, and 3 from the bottom up.
- Smaller cringles along the head enable it to be laced to the yard.
