الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
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- windlass
- Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
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- – A device used for hauling up the anchor
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- A type of winch, fitted with a wildcat for hauling chain, or a gypsy for rope
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- Once you get the anchor out there, you'll have to bring it back in On a 41' catamaran, the anchor is going to be pretty heaving and hauling in rope, then chain is not an easy task Enter the Windlass basically it's a winch on it's side and designed to handle chain The other key feature is that it's electric! Push a button and in comes the anchor!
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- A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight
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- It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam
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- Rotating drum device used for hauling line or chain to raise and lower an anchor
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- The machine used for raising the anchor and chain cable
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- A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift
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- "A cylinder on an axle, turned by a crank or brace [or, on the Lady, by direct manpower], useful for hoisting and hauling " (Uden & Cooper) A windlass revolves around a horizontal axis, as opposed to a capstan, which rotates around a vertical axis
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- A handle rewuired to operate locks Used to prevent unauthorised persons from operating locks
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- An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow
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- A machine for working cables, and often used in weighing anchors, and generally mounted in the bows of the ship The windlass is distinguished from a capstan by having the barrel, or cable spool in a horizontal position
- windlass
- To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means
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- 1 A winch used for hauling cable, anchor chain or line; 2 A winch with its drum on which the line is wrapped turning on a horizontal axis; Compare to capstan 3 A mechanical device used for hoisting anchors or other heavy objects
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- {f} raise, hoist up; raise with a windlass
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- In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor
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- A winch used to raise and lower a ship's anchor
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- A windlass is a mechanical device for lifting heavy objects, which uses a motor to pull a rope or chain around a cylinder. = winch. a machine for pulling or lifting heavy objects (vindass, from vinda + ass )
- windlass
- {i} device which is used to hoist objects up by means of a rope attached to a horizontal cylinder that is turned manually or mechanically, winch; hoist
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- To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass
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- A handle or key for opening and closing lock paddles, shaped in the form of the letter L and having a square socket at one end to fit on the square of the spindle operating the paddle gear
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- An L-shaped tool used for opening paddles on lock gates Often carried in the waist band or belt of a boater
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- lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
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- An apparatus in which horizontal drums or wheels are operated by means of a steam engine, pneumatic engine, hydraulic engine, or electric motor for handling heavy anchor chains, hawsers, etc