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