Reply To: Shivers

[Cathy S]

I’ve consulted Des Pawson, world-renowned expert on knots and sailors’ ropework. This is what he says:

Sheaves are the wheel-like bit that rotates in the block. This is a full list of parts of the block:

 
The shell or body,

Eye, hook or strop,

Crown,

Cheek,

Score, (if rope stropped)

Swallow,

Sheave, (perhaps fitted with a coak or bush or even a roller bearing),

Pin, (perhaps under the tally plate),

Tally plate,

Becket (sometimes fitted at the tail),

Tail.