windlass's Usage Examples:

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

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

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

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

In the Egyptian ships the hogging trusses were plainly tensioned by twisting them together, making what is often called a Spanish windlass.

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.

windlass used during the Middle Ages.

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.

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.

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

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.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

fire, disembark, get off, push,