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Meanings of windlass (windlasses) in English
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.
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Examples for "winch"
Examples for "winch"
1
The boom swung out and the drum of the winch began unrolling.
2
Moments later two rather large bundles were lowered via a portable winch.
3
Perhaps they had set fire to the winch or the smelting shed?
4
He left the engine idling to run the winch and the hoist.
5
Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops.
Usage of windlasses in English
1
The trucks were moved forward by human strength and dumped by hand-windlasses.
2
Brick wells with wooden windlasses stood in the center of each field.
3
No more cranes, screw-jacks, windlasses, cranks, or other machines will be wanted.
4
This roadway and windlasses must have cost them many hours of hard labor.
5
The windlasses that lift the bridge are actuated by manual power.
6
The windlasses, as above stated, are permanently connected with the terminals of the dynamos.
7
Tools were dropped, cradles and tubs abandoned, windlasses left to kick their cranks backwards.
8
Well, there they all were, tents and diggers, claims and windlasses, pumps and water-wheels.
9
He looked over the engines and calculated the strength of the chains on the windlasses.
10
The Prodigal and I manned the windlasses, while the old miners went down the drifts.
11
The rim of the pit is fringed with windlasses.
12
Tom called to the men below, who were paying out the ropes from the windlasses.
13
Mingled with these were picks, pans, steam thawers, windlasses, and great piles of sluice timber.
14
The whirring of windlasses, the clatter of nail-keg buckets, the incessant calls, 'Look up below!'
15
Then came the period of "cabestans"-unwieldlymachinespropelled by means of anchors and windlasses.
16
Some used windlasses; others carried the earth up in buckets and tubs, some even by climbing ladders.
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Windlasses through the time