Noun:

ਵ੍ਹੀਲਬੈਰੋ,

windlass's Usage Examples:

It seems impossible to tighten cables of such enormous lengths by windlasses as described by Herodotus.

*werbilôn, cf English "warble" "whirl" and "twirl" ) vindas "windlass" voguer "to row" vogue vrac "in a jumble" ( < Dut wrac, cf Eng "wreck", "wrack".

To do this, a windlass was usually fitted amidships and a davit in the stern (or sometimes the bow) to provide a fair lead.

The trawl is a sort of big fishing net that is wound on the windlass.

The strongest windlass-pulled arbalests could have up to 22 kN (2,200 kilograms-force; 4,900 pounds-force).

steep cable railway inclined planes using static steam engine powered windlasses, similar to mechanisms of modern ski lifts.

hammers and wedges to split the rock, wiskets or baskets to contain it, corves or sledges to drag it to the shaft bottom, and windlasses or stows, to lift.

The strongest windlass-pulled arbalests could have up to 22 kN (2,200 kilograms-force; 4,900 pounds-force) of.

double-drum mooring winches and two combined electrically driven anchor windlasses for raising and lowering the anchor and its 142-millimetre (5.

Her rudder, anchor, and windlass were illegally removed from her wreck site in the 1980s.

An anchor windlass is a machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised and lowered by means of chain.

cranes to be powered manually by windlasses with radiating spokes, cranks and by the 15th century also by windlasses shaped like a ship"s wheel.

The C"P railroad delivered the windlass for the mine, then used its railroad crane to set it in place.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

fire, disembark, get off, push,