double tackle

English[edit]

double tackle (plural double tackles)

A block and tackle composed of two pulley blocks, each of which has two sheaves (pulleys).
- 1772, Henry Swinden, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Burgh of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk, page 543:
  The city of London and the liberties thereof, are to find one admiral of nine hundred tons with three hundred and fifty men; another great ship of eight hundred tons, with two hundred sixty men; the four midling ships, of five hundred tons each, and two hundred men each; and one small ship of three hundred tons, with one hundred and fifty men; with double tackle, munition, wages, and victuals.
- 1918, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming - Volume 87, page 353:
  The question between single and double tackle was practically settled for good at the Wolverhampton trials of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1871, when Fowlers obtained all the prizes.
- 2019, Yuan Chen, Engineering Energy Aluminum Conductor Composite Core (ACCC) and Its Application:
  When the envelope angle of the conductor passing the tackle for paying-off is more than 30 degrees, but less than 60 degrees, it is required to use double tackle for paying-off and that quantity of tower continuously passed fails to exceed 20.
(rugby) A tackle by two players of the same time on an opposition player.
- 2021, Ed Hodge, Make Mine a Double:
  It was the key breakthrough – and rich reward for the determined double tackle by Booth, who simply didn't give up.