cat-tackle-fall

Updated: June 28, 2025

And when the cat-tackle-fall was strung along, and all hands cook, steward, and all laid hold, to cat the anchor, instead of the lively song of ``Cheerly, men! in which all hands join in the chorus, we pulled a long, heavy, silent pull, and, as sailors say a song is as good as ten men, the anchor came to the cat-head pretty slowly. ``Give us `Cheerly! said the mate; but there was no ``cheerly'' for us, and we did without it.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

And when the cat-tackle-fall was strung along, and all hands cook, steward, and all laid hold, to cat the anchor, instead of the lively song of "Cheerily, men!" in which all hands join in the chorus, we pulled a long, heavy, silent pull, and as sailors say a song is as good as ten men the anchor came to the cat-head pretty slowly.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast