Sentence examples for windlass from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
To test the theory, a chassis was dragged by rope and windlass along the floor of the Highland Park, Michigan, plant in the summer of 1913.
Who would dare to hazard a meaning for Wixhill and Wingfield, if she herself left them as "obscure"?Nonetheless, she was grateful when locals got in touch with her: telling her, for example, that the stream at Winsor in Hampshire was too tiny to carry the meaning, "river-bank where boats are pulled by a windlass", she had posited for Windsor in Berkshire.
The two stage posts were substantial, since they had to uphold the large cover, or heavens, which had a trapdoor in it with a windlass for winding boys playing gods down onto the stage.
In addition to the Bergmeister ("master miner"), the chief mine administrator, there was a hierarchy of clerical and technical personnel and a series of craftsmen and mechanics specializing in different phases of the mining operation: miners, shovelers, windlass operators, carriers, sorters, washers, and smelters.
Building a stone circle in Godalming, England, he once saw a wooden windlass snap a man's arm.
By the time the Katheryn slammed dully into a vacant berth outside the Lion Quays hotel, you'd have needed the lock windlass to prise my blanched knuckles off the tiller.
If the bow could be held in a drawn state by a mechanical trigger, then the bow could be drawn in progressive stages using levers, cranks, and gears or windlass-and-pulley mechanisms, thereby multiplying the user's strength.
In several places, as on the Yu River, river craft are pulled over the rapids with hand-worked windlasses.
The belt hook was inadequate for cocking the steel crossbows required to penetrate plate armour, and by the 14th century military crossbows were being fitted with removable windlasses and rack-and-pinion winding mechanisms called cranequins.
Animal power was used wherever possible, with teams of eight horses hitched in pairs to turn windlasses and raise buckets of ore or drain water from the mine.
Because shipping was handicapped where barges had to be towed over the weirs with windlasses or manually, the lock and lock basin were evolved to raise boats from one level to another.
