This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.
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Windlass
Synonyms for "windlass" (34 found)
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With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
Source: wiktionary
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.
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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.
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