Hoop:
On gaff-rigged sailing vessels the luff of the mainsail is secured to the mast by wooden hoops, which slide up or down the mast as the sail is raised or lowered.
spider-hoop or spider band - An iron band round the mast with iron belaying pins in it.
spiling - Marking on a bar of wood the distances that a curved line, say that of a frame, is from a straight line.
Trunnion Hoop
A hinged fitting at the top of a mast to hold another mast above it.
Trysail ...
Bosun's mates checked the tightness of each rolled hammock every morning with a regulation sized hoop. There was trouble for the sailor whose hammock could not be put through the hoop.
Gammon iron -- An iron hoop fitted to the side of the stem, or on top of the stem, to receive and hold the bowsprit.
Garboard -- The strake of plank next above the keel, into which it is rabbeted and bolted.
SEA ANCHOR-A drag device (usually a conical canvas pocket held open by a metal hoop, but a canvas bucket in Tinkerbelle's case) used to keep the boat headed into the wind and waves while it is not under way, especially during heavy weather.
left done up for some time in anything like a critical application. This is done by passing a couple of turns of mousing wire through the hole provided for this purpose in the unthreaded end of the pin and around the body of the shackle's hoop.
CRANSE-IRON - An iron hoop at the bowsprit end, with eyes fitted to it, to which the bobstay and topmast stay are fastened.
CRINGLE - A rope eye spliced into the bolt rope of a sail enclosing an iron thimble, through which a reef earing is rove.
 See also: Set, Boat, Sailing, Mast, After
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