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span shackles

span shackles is the plural of span shackle.

Meaning of span shackle

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.

Questions about span shackles

What is span shackles the plural of?
Span shackles is the plural of span shackle.

Words near span shackles in the dictionary

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

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