capstan

How To Use capstan In A Sentence

• Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
• It was only a little boy, singing in a shrill treble the sea chantey which seamen sing the wide world over when they man the capstan bars and break the anchors out for "Frisco" port. The Banks of the Sacramento
• But as the tape winds on over the capstans, fragments are lost or dulled, and the music becomes a ghost of itself, tiny gasps of full-bodied chords groaning to life amid pits of near-silence.
• Near the seabed, an interesting feature is a large power capstan.
• The pirates instantly began winching the cable in with a capstan.
• Directly abaft the capstan was the fore-hatch, over which lay the path of those who walked around at the bars. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
• The best, like all good things, has gone for ever, and this best way was for a thing called a capstan to have sticking out from it, movable, and fitted into its upper rim, other things called capstan -- bars. First and Last
• Helping were a number of Adsteam tugs and a team of ADI dockworkers who, with stout ropes and capstans finally secured the giant ship.
• At the stern, a single capstan and chain hold the kedge anchor in place against the rear of the hull.