windlasses
- present tense form of windlass (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Vertical windlasses generally provide more pulling power because they provide a better bite on the line; a vertical windlass' motor also is better protected from the elements.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his childhood farm--his grounding in the earth--has never left Heaney or his poems: "As a child, they could not keep me from wells/ And old pumps with buckets and windlasses."
From Time Magazine Archive
The covers come in various sizes, so all vertical windlasses can easily be accommodated.
From Time Magazine Archive
They chop big round holes in the ice, lower nets on windlasses and haul up sturgeon by the ton.
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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
