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Anquīna

（ἀγκοίνα). A collar or ring by which the yard-arm was fastened to the mast of a ship, and called by our sailors a “truss.” ( Orig. xix. 4, 7.)

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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