एक क्षैतिज सिलेंडर से मिलकर एक क्षैतिज सिलेंडर होता है जिसमें एक केबल या रस्सी हवाएं होती हैं

Noun:

Windlass,

windlasses's Usage Examples:

(The architect being at that time also the contractor.) The chapters are -- (1) on various machines, such as scaling-ladders, windmills, 'c. (2) on windlasses, axles, pulleys and cranes for moving heavy weights, such as those used by Chersiphron in building the great temple of Diana at Ephesus, and on the discovery by a shepherd of a quarry of marble required to build the same temple; (3) on dynamics; (4) on machines for drawing water; (5) on wheels for irrigation worked by a river; (6) on raising water by a revolving spiral tube; (7) on the machine of Ctesibius for raising water to a height; (8) on a very complicated water engine, the description of which is not intelligible, though Vitruvius remarks that he has tried to make the matter clear; (9) on machines with wheels to register the distance travelled, either by land or water; (10) on the construction of scorpiones for hurling stones; (11) and (12) on balistae and catapults; (13) on battering rams and other machines for the attack of a fortress; (14) on shields (testudines) to enable soldiers to fill up the enemy's ditches; (15) on other kinds of testudines; (16) on machines for defence, and examples of their use in ancient times.

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.

One more thing - I am used to electric anchor windlasses - -are manual ones effective and quick enough?

These gates require unusual windlasses, the paddles require an open ended, preferably a two handled square.

anchor windlasses - -are manual ones effective and quick enough?

windlasses's Meaning':

lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

push, get off, disembark, fire,