tail-tacklen. a handy tackle consisting of a double and a single block, or two double blocks, having the strop of one of the double blocks lengthened as in a tail-block.
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tail-tackle1859
1859 F. A. GriffithsArtillerist's Man. (1862) 318 If the moveable block of a tackle be strapped with a tail, it is called a tail, or jigger block: and the tackle a tail, or jigger tackle.