This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.
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Windlass
Synonyms for "windlass" (31 found)
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30 translations across 20 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- бра́шпіль noun (winch)
- лябёдка noun (winch)
Bulgarian
2 entries- макара noun (winch)
- хаспел noun (winch)
Catalan
1 entries- argue noun (winch)
Czech
1 entries- rumpál noun (winch)
Finnish
1 entries- vintturi noun (winch)
Galician
1 entries- guindastre noun (winch)
Hebrew
1 entries- כַּנֶּנֶת noun (winch)
Italian
4 entries- argano noun (winch)
- bozzello noun (winch)
- salpareti noun (winch)
- verricello noun (winch)
Latin
2 entries- sucula noun (winch)
- tormentum noun (winch)
Macedonian
1 entries- ди́галка noun (winch)
Māori
1 entries- huritaura noun (winch)
Norman
1 entries- vitheveau noun (winch)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- ارغات noun (winch)
- بوجرغات noun (winch)
- چقرق noun (winch)
Polish
1 entries- kołowrót noun (winch)
Russian
2 entries- бра́шпиль noun (winch)
- лебёдка noun (winch)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sidreno vitlo noun (winch)
Spanish
1 entries- malacate noun (winch)
Tagalog
1 entries- biling-bilingan noun (winch)
Turkish
1 entries- bocurgat noun (winch)
Ukrainian
2 entries- брашпиль noun (winch)
- лебідка noun (winch)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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