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Windlass Crossword Clue and Answers List

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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...
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