Noun:

Windlass,

windlass's Usage Examples:

The chain windlass is just beyond the bridge ramp.

While we were wandering around an EA guy with a very large windlass came over and had a chat.

This would need a special windlass, not unlike the River Great Ouse type.

Never leave the windlass (lock key) on the spindle.

windlass used during the Middle Ages.

corfe earliest improvement was the windlass, a hand-wound rope to haul up baskets, called corves, of coal.

The monasteries stand on the summit of these pinnacles; they are accessible only by aid of rope and net worked by a windlass from the top, or by a series of almost perpendicular ladders climbing the cliff.

The creators work to understand things like the stance phase, the swing phase and the windlass mechanism, for example.

square sunk into the blue ground; the diamantiferous rock was hoisted by bucket and windlass, and roadways were left across the pit to provide access to the claims. But the roadways soon fell in, and ultimately haulage from the claims could only be provided by means of a vast system of wire ropes extending from a triple staging of windlasses erected round the entire edge of the mine, which had by this time become a huge open pit; the ropes from the upper windlasses extended to the centre, and those from the lower tier to the sides of the pit; covering the whole mass like a gigantic cobweb.

The grandest place of all is the Colossal Dome, which used to be entered only from the apex by windlass and a rope reaching 135 ft.

Synonyms:

lifting device, yard donkey, ship, yarder, winch, capstan,

Antonyms:

fire, disembark, get off, push,