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 Hypernym: hoist Coordinate terms: come-along winch
( euphemistic ) underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt .system of several pulleys
Arabic: مُحْل (ar) m ( muḥl ) , مَحَالَة f ( maḥāla )
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: полиспа́ст m ( polispást )
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: πολύσπαστο (el) n ( polýspasto )
Ancient: πολύσπαστον n ( polúspaston ) , ἄρμενα n pl ( ármena ) , τροχιλεία f ( trokhileía )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: גַּלְגֶּלֶת (he) f מַעֲרֶכֶת גַּלְגִּלּוֹת (he) f ( ma'arekhet galgilot )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: csigasor (hu)
Icelandic: talía f
Ingrian: talja
Italian: polispasto m paranco (it) m
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
Latin: polyspaston n trochlea f
Ligurian: paranco m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: talje (no) m or f
Nynorsk: talje f
Polish: wielokrążek (pl) m
Portuguese: bloco de polias m
Romanian: scripete (ro) 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:
Modern: palanga (tr)
Ottoman: پلانقه ( palanka )
Ukrainian: поліспа́ст ( polispást )
Vietnamese: pa lăng
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