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▪ I. windlass, n.1 (ˈwɪndləs) Forms: 5 wynlas(s)e, wyndelas, 5–6 wyndlas, 6 -lasse, wynlas, 6–7 windlesse, -lasse, wyndles(se, (also 9) windlace, 6–8 windlas, windles, 7 wyndeles, 7–8 windless, winlace, 8 winlass, 7– windlass. [prob. alteration of windas, of obscure origin. The alleged Icel. vindilá...
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Windlass
The windlass is an apparatus for moving heavy weights. Differential windlass
In a differential windlass, also called a Chinese windlass, there are two coaxial drums of different radii r and r′.
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windlass
windlass/ˈwɪndləs; `wɪndləs/ ndevice for pulling or lifting things (eg a bucket of water from a well) by means of a rope or chain that winds round a horizontal axle; winch 绞车; 辘轳; 卷扬机.
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Anchor windlass
On some ships, it may be located in a specific room called the windlass room. The trawl is a sort of big fishing net that is wound on the windlass.
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Solo Wings Windlass
The Solo Wings Windlass is a South African ultralight trike designed and produced by Solo Wings of Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal. In the early 2000s the company had planned to phase the Windlass out, but customer demand has kept the model in production through 2012.
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USS Windlass
Windlass and her sister ship then returned to Bayonne. There, Windlass remained into 1949.
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The Aeronaut's Windlass
The Aeronaut's Windlass is a 2015 steampunk fantasy written by Jim Butcher and involving steampunk technologies, magical wars, and intelligent cats. Whether you like steampunk or straight fantasy, it can't be denied good writing is good writing and Jim gives it to you in The Aeronaut's Windlass by the
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Winding hole
Another etymology, however, is the Old English word for turn - "windan", (pronounced with a short I (as in windlass, a handle for winding (long I) gears in Iceland—where the modern word for "windlass" is "vinda".
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Cathead
Additional nautical use of the term
A second "cat head" was associated with a ship's anchor-cable and windlass. This was a square pin thrust into one of the handspike holes of a ship's windlass.
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Solo Wings
The company produced two ultralight trike designs, starting with the entry-level Windlass, powered by the Rotax 503 twin cylinder, two-stroke, air-cooled Sports, Inc. of Palm Coast, Florida and later Fort Lauderdale, Florida from the late 1990s until the early 2000s under their own name as the Bateleur Windlass
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Pawl
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Anchor windlass A pawl is used in an anchor windlass to prevent a free-spooling chain by grabbing and snubbing an individual link.
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Cathead (disambiguation)
Cathead, Catshead, or Cat head also may refer to:
a windlass or capstan used in machinery such as a hoisting drawworks
A type of biscuit in the cuisine
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