Windlass

This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.

With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.

A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.

He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.