English
Noun
block and tackle (plural block and tackles or blocks and tackles )
A system in which a rope , cable , or chain (the tackle ) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks , one fixed and one attached to a load , which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.
Synonyms: polyspast , muffle , hoisting -tackle
( euphemistic ) The underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt .
Synonyms
Translations
system of several pulleys
Arabic: مُحْل (ar) m ( muḥl ) , مَحَالَة f ( maḥāla )
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: полиспа̀ст m ( polispàst )
Czech: kladkostroj m
Danish: talje c
Finnish: väkipyörästö (fi) , taljasto
French: polyspaste (fr) m , moufle (fr) f
Galician: aparello (gl) m
German: Flaschenzug (de) m , Zugwerk n
Greek:
Ancient Greek: πολύσπαστον n ( polúspaston ) , ἄρμενα n pl ( ármena )
Modern Greek: πολύσπαστο (el) n ( polýspasto )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: גַּלְגֶּלֶת (he) f
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: csigasor (hu)
Icelandic: talía f
Italian: polispasto m , paranco m
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
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Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
Latin: polyspaston n
Ligurian: paranco m
Polish: wielokrążek (pl) m
Portuguese: bloco de polias m
Russian: полиспа́ст (ru) m ( polispást ) , таль (ru) ( talʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̏лотӯрнӣк m коту̀рача f
Latin: kȍlotūrnīk (sh) m , kotùrača (sh) f
Spanish: polipasto (es) m , polispasto m , mufla (es) f , aparejo (es) m
Swedish: talja (sv)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Turkish:
Ottoman: پلانقه ( palanka )
Modern: palanga (tr)
Ukrainian: поліспа́ст ( polispást )
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