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span shackle

span shackle noun: a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit.

Noun

span shackle (plural span shackles)

  1. A large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit.

Forms of span shackle

pluralspan shackles

Questions about span shackle

What does span shackle mean?
Span shackle means a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit.
What part of speech is span shackle?
Span shackle is a noun.
What is the plural of span shackle?
The plural of span shackle is span shackles.

Words near span shackle in the dictionary

  1. span irons
  2. span of control
  3. span roof
  4. span roofs
  5. span round
  6. span shackle
  7. span shackles
  8. span-new
  9. Span.
  10. spanaemia
  11. spanaemias

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