cringles

Consists of a grommet made of rope double the size of the gun-tackle falls, with two cringles worked into it for the frapping lashing, which will be of stuff half the size of the tackle-falls.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

He poised himself for a few moments on the crotch of the boom, clinging to the cringles of the luff -- the short ropes with which the sail is reefed.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

Their dreams are of cringles and reef-tackles, of knots, splices, grummets, and dead-eyes.

The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

The buntlines are two ropes attached to cringles, or eyes, in the bottom of the sail, which are used for hauling up the middle, or bunt, of the topsail.

Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Oliver Optic 1859