The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Cask Sling

Sea Terms

A length of rope having either a hook or an eye in one end, and used for lifting a cask on its bilge. (See engraving.) This differs from a barrel sling, which see.

Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
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