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STOWCE | A windlass. | |
WINDLACE | See Windlass. | |
WINDAS | See 3d Windlass. | |
SURGE | To slip along a windlass. | |
AFORE | Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. | |
WEATHERBIT | To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. | |
CRAB | A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. | |
WINDLASS | To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass. | |
WEATHER-BIT | A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits. | |
FLEET | To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain. | |
HANDSPIKE | A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. | |
GIN | A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. | |
BARREL | A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled. | |
WHELP | One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass. | |
WINCH | An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass. | |
ROUND | On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass. | |
PAWL | ... direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. ... | |
BITTS | ... belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl... | |
CRANE | ... rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane... |