cutting tackles
01KJNXM6ZXASDTQ75SG7GMR61WProperties
- _kg_layer
- 0
- characteristic
- enormous
- color
- green
- components
- blocks
- description
- Enormous hempen ropes and blocks used for hoisting and suspending the decapitated head of a whale. Their failure leads to a significant accident.
- function
- suspend the head
- material
- hempen
Relationships
- used onPequod
- description
- The enormous cutting tackles are swayed up to the main-top and lashed to the lower mast-head of the Pequod.
- source
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- source_text
- the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which no single man can possibly lift—this vast bunch of grapes was swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest point anywhere above a ship’s deck.
- connected toWindlass
- description
- The rope winding through the cutting tackles is conducted to the windlass to facilitate hoisting.
- source
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- source_text
- The end of the hawser-like rope winding through these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one hundred pounds, was attached.
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:03:46.584Z
- source
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- referenced_bySperm Whale's Case
- context
- is_suspended_by
- source
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- source_text
- retained in that position by the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen combinations, on one side, make quite a wilderness of ropes in that quarter
- referenced_byWhale Head Dropping into Sea
- context
- is_caused_by
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:04:38.672Z
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