snatch block

The snatch blocks used were heavy steel and difficult to handle.

Run it down to floor, and through a snatch block attached to passenger's seat.

Twenty feet from the winch the wire passed through a snatch block on the deck: if Ferry was lucky, he might lose only his hand.

"Rig the line from the winch through snatch blocks here, and here, and here, so I can haul you back against the wind.

Sheave blocks, winches and snatch blocks were used to facilitate the lifting, and cables inside the pylons were stressed with jacks.

Then, at the word of command, the men together drop the car, and seize the three guy ropes, of which one is made to pass through a snatch block firmly secured.

A mountain of pinch bars jumper bits, shovels, steel wire rope, snatch blocks, chains, spanners, fourteen-pound hammers, and other twisted and unrecognizable pieces of metal filled the yard.

Ramage looked forward to see that the hauling part, or fall, of the tackle was now led through a snatch block and then round the capstan and that men were waiting at the bars.

Have the boys break out a couple of spare Number Twelve struts, some clamps and chain, four snatch blocks, and a hundred feet of heavy space-line... "Good," he went on, when the order had been obeyed.

Following the early January 1967 Exercise "Snatch Block," which was devoted to SAR and electronic countermeasure (ECM) procedures, Berkeley spent the next three months preparing for another Far East deployment.

Why else would I have a broadax, a slick, a three-pound hatchet, a double-bitted ax, a froe, an adze, two big drawknives, a log scriber, a heavy-duty breast drill, a long boat builder's hand auger, a block and tackle and a snatch block stashed away?