windlass

/wind-luhs/US // ˈwɪnd ləs //UK // (ˈwɪndləs) //

辘轳,卷扬机,绞车,辘辘车

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a device for raising or hauling objects, usually consisting of a horizontal cylinder or barrel turned by a crank, lever, motor, or the like, upon which a cable, rope, or chain winds, the outer end of the cable being attached directly or indirectly to the weight to be raised or the thing to be hauled or pulled; winch.

v.有主动词 verb

The chain communicated with a powerful crane rigged up on the foremast, and was wrought by a steam windlass on deck.
Newton made no answer, and Jackson went forward, where the remainder of the crew were heaving up the anchor with the windlass.
I will make a windlass as soon as I can, and we will soon hoist out another, like they turn a bucket of water up from a well.
The words of these windlass and bowline "shanties" have, of course, little of the element of finished poetry about them.
Those working the windlass, feeling that the strain was off the rope, let out no more.