Usage of "windlasses"

Russian

Portuguese

Spanish

Apparatus for moving heavy weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder (barrel) rotated by the turn of a crank or belt; a winch is affixed to one end, and a cable is wound around the winch, pulling a weight attached to the opposite end.

Related terms

simple machine

дифференциальный ворот

Portuguese

catraca

Catalan

torn

Spanish

torno

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

winch

catraca

Usage of windlasses in English

The trucks were moved forward by human strength and dumped by hand-windlasses. 
 Gladiator 

Brick wells with wooden windlasses stood in the center of each field. 
 The brazen gambit 

No more cranes, screw-jacks, windlasses, cranks, or other machines will be wanted. 
 The Moon-Voyage 

This roadway and windlasses must have cost them many hours of hard labor. 
 Klondyke Nuggets / A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions... 

The windlasses that lift the bridge are actuated by manual power. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 

The windlasses, as above stated, are permanently connected with the terminals of the dynamos. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 

Tools were dropped, cradles and tubs abandoned, windlasses left to kick their cranks backwards. 
 Australia Felix 

Well, there they all were, tents and diggers, claims and windlasses, pumps and water-wheels. 
 Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a... 

He looked over the engines and calculated the strength of the chains on the windlasses. 
 The Great Stone of Sardis 

The Prodigal and I manned the windlasses, while the old miners went down the drifts. 
 The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance 

The rim of the pit is fringed with windlasses. 
 The Life of Froude 

Tom called to the men below, who were paying out the ropes from the windlasses. 
 Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; Or, The Naval Terror of the Se... 

Mingled with these were picks, pans, steam thawers, windlasses, and great piles of sluice timber. 
 Triple Spies 

The whirring of windlasses, the clatter of nail-keg buckets, the incessant calls, 'Look up below!' 
 In the Roaring Fifties 

Then came the period of "cabestans"-unwieldlymachinespropelled by means of anchors and windlasses. 
 Russia 

Some used windlasses; others carried the earth up in buckets and tubs, some even by climbing ladders. 
 Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania 