right|thumb|A cringle at the corner of a sail.
right|thumb|A cringle at the corner of a sail.
A cringle is an eye through which to pass a rope. In nautical settings, the word refers to a small hole anywhere along the edge or in the corner of a sail, rimmed with stranded cordage and worked into the boltrope. Typically it encloses a metal grommet for reinforcement and to reduce wear. In this context, cringle and grommet coincide enough that the two are sometimes used interchangeably.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).