Theatre Rigging Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. Another name for Rope lock
  2. 4. Helps keep tension on the handline
  3. 8. Ropes pulling up weights or scenery.
  4. 9. Main distributing pulley in the grid
  5. 11. Weight of the empty batten and lift lines
  6. 14. Counterweight is equal to load
  7. 16. Keeps the rose lock in place
  8. 17. Another name for counterweight
  9. 18. The batten moves twice as far as the arbor
  10. 19. Used to adjust batten height/level.
  11. 20. Another name for a double batten
  12. 22. The rope the operator pulls (often Manila).
  13. 23. Long pipe holding scenery/lights
Down
  1. 1. Place where counterweight is loaded and unloaded
  2. 3. Pulley in the grid for lift lines
  3. 5. Part of the total load that is added to the batten
  4. 6. Weights balancing the load
  5. 7. Holds the fly line in place.
  6. 10. Place through which the lift cable passes through the grid
  7. 12. A complete set of ropes, pulleys, and battens.
  8. 13. Place from where a line set is operated
  9. 14. Keeps empty batten weight "marked"
  10. 15. Table on which the counterweights sit
  11. 16. Keeps lift lines from getting caught in other blocks
  12. 21. The steel structure above the stage where pulleys are mounted