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A truck is a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast, with holes in it through which flag halyards are passed. [1] Trucks are also used on wooden flagpoles, to prevent them from splitting. [citation needed] Without a masthead truck, water could easily seep into the circular growth rings of a wooden mast.
A square rig sail with a halyard is mounted on a lifting yard that is free to slide on a short section of the mast. The halyard is used to raise (hail or hal) the yard when setting the sail. A gaff rigged sail has two; a throat halyard to lift the end of the gaff nearer the mast, and a peak halyard to lift the outer end.
Used to repeat the third flag of a hoist later within the same hoist. Code/Answer Pennant: At the dip (about half-way up the halyard): Ready to receive message Close up: Message has been received and understood (the flag is then hauled back at the dip to receive the next hoist) Hauled down: Signals end of message. With numerals: Decimal point
With a safety harness tightened and secured, a team of friends and family of David and his brother, Michael, began trekking up the stands and straddling a flag pole to raise over 200 flags around ...
A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.
Apple stock received a rare downgrade to "sell" from an analyst on Tuesday. The downgrade highlights premium-valuation concerns and some negative headlines in recent months.
In the 1850s, U.S. Army Major Albert J. Myer, a surgeon by training, developed a system using left or right movements of a flag (or torch or lantern at night). Myer's system used a single flag, waved back and forth in a binary code conceptually similar to the Morse code of dots and dashes. [4]
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Anbereen Hasan grew up swimming and dabbled in Pilates as an adult, but she wanted to start her ...