tackle Copy link Outline 1. armāmenta, ōrum, n. pl. (all the appliances and fittings necessary for a vessel)2. arma, orum, n. pl. (rare)3. rŭdentes, um, m. pl. (ropes, rigging) • tackle, tackling (subs.): 1. armāmenta, ōrum, n. pl. (all the appliances and fittings necessary for a vessel): the names of the different parts of the t., vocabula armamentorum, Caes. B. C. 1, 58: to provide with t., armamentis instruere, ib. 1, 36: since all the hope of the Gallic vessels lay in their sails and t., cum omnis Gallicis navibus spes in velis armamentisque consisteret, id. B. G. 3, 14: to lower the t., a. demere (opp. to tollere), Liv. 21, 49: demittere, Sen. Ben. 6, 15., 6: with the t. in disorder, fusis a., Suet. Aug. 17, ad med.: to dismantle a ship of her t., navem armamentis spoliare (said of a storm), Liv. 30, 39: to arrange and adjust the t., a. complicare et componere, Pl. Merc. 1, 2, 83. Phr.: ships equipped with t., armatae naves, Caes. B. G. 3, 13: instructae ornataeque naves, Cic. Verr. 5, 51, 133. 2. arma, orum, n. pl. (rare): ships thoroughly provided with every kind of t., naves omni genere armorum ornatissimae, Caes. B. G. 3, 14. 3. rŭdentes, um, m. pl. (ropes, rigging): the creaking of the t., stridor rudentum, Virg. Aen. 1, 87: the south-east wind tears the t. to bits, r. differt Eurus, Hor. Epod. 10, 5. Phr.: fishing-t., linum et hami, Ov. Met. 3, 586: rete atque hami, Pl. Rud. 4, 3, 56.