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Side-tack′le.


Gunnery.) A purchase hooking in to an eye-bolt on a naval gun-carriage and an eyebolt in the ship's side, and serving to train the gun to point forward or abaft the beam, and to run it out of the port. Each carriage has a side-tackle on each side.

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