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They chop big round holes in the ice, lower nets on windlasses and haul up sturgeon by the ton.

From Time Magazine Archive

The standard equipment list is extensive and of first quality, with such items as Pool anchors, Freeman hardware, Maxwell windlasses and capstans and Northern Lights generators.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our 18th century heroes had hundreds of crew and aft windlasses to do the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twin anchors, with separate windlasses recessed for easy cleanup, are deployed over rollers at the bow.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were hoisted out of the boats with derricks and windlasses built by the carpenters and put into waiting carts that carried them through the town to the site.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay