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chainfall

noun

Etymology

From chain + fall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as chainfall — “chain + fall”

Definitions

  1. A chain laid across a beam or similar, used as part of a hoist for lifting objects.

    • I pinched a cowlift over Jewel's hipbones. Then we took a chainfall and hooked it to an overhead beam and then to the cowlift.

  2. A hoist of the type that provides a hanging chain

    A hoist of the type that provides a hanging chain: a chainfall hoist.

    • Get that chainfall over here. We're gonna flip this damn thing over. We'll be here all week if we don't get better access for this grinding op.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chainfall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA