windlassing
- present participle of windlass.
Example Sentences
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A benevolent person watched a workman laboriously windlassing rock from a shaft while the broiling sun was beating down on his bare head.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)