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Windlass

Windlass meaning

Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights | A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course. | An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

Synonyms of Windlass

winch lifting device

Example sentences (8)

DOUBLE WINDLASS: This double windlass is in the Weygandt barn in Wayne County, Ohio.

The counterweight trebuchet was equipped with a windlass, an apparatus which was required neither for traction nor hybrid trebuchets to launch missiles.

Chairman Ashwani Windlass also said there was "some softness in the lower and mid-end of the market".

I just polished off Jim Butcher's newer one, The Aeronaut's Windlass, and am picking up Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series.

At one point, the crew is getting up the anchor in a storm, by means of a pump-style windlass.

Consequentially, many Aboriginal people were injured or died while trying to access the water, either falling in and drowning or breaking bones on the windlass handle.

Then the screw is reversed, the windlass turned again to move the bed back to its original position, the tympan and frisket raised and opened, and the printed sheet removed.

The required crossbows needed a massive base frame and powerful windlass devices.