How To Use Capstan In A Sentence
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Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
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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
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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.
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Near the seabed, an interesting feature is a large power capstan.
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The pirates instantly began winching the cable in with a capstan.
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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
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Behind the forward capstan, the wreck becomes an unidentifiable mess but it can be seen that the superstructure had rounded windows rather than portholes.
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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
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Helping were a number of Adsteam tugs and a team of ADI dockworkers who, with stout ropes and capstans finally secured the giant ship.
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At the stern, a single capstan and chain hold the kedge anchor in place against the rear of the hull.
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The sailors had tied their prisoner with ropes to the heavy iron wheel in the stern of the boat called a capstan; so that as he moved he would be obliged to drag it round and thus help to work the ship.
A Book of Quaker Saints
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Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
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Then, suddenly, he -- for it was a man -- swayed back, with a hitch to his skin trousers, and began to sing a chanty, such as men lift when they swing around the capstan circle and the sea snorts in their ears:
An Odyssey of the North
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I retreated into the bow, past the capstan, on a line with the cathead.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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The stern deck itself has a big capstan in the centre, with pairs of small bollards on either side.
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Most of the famous chanteys were born in the packet service and shouted as working choruses by the tars of this Western Ocean before the chanteyman perched upon a capstan and led the refrain in the clipper trade.
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
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Though covered in a thin layer of rust, the bow capstans and winches were remarkably preserved and looked as if they would work after a little maintenance and a squirt of oil.
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Towards either side of the deck is another pair of capstans.
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Standing before a capstan lathe had made existence tolerable by providing the ambition to excel at what he was doing.
THE OPEN DOOR
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After two years in the field, drives without a sealed mechanism experience dust buildup around the media entrance and in critical areas such as the capstan.
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You will note mooring bollards and a single capstan with a large winch further behind, and are likely to come across an enormous edible crab which has been there for quite a while.
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Inclined haul - off capstans of 2500 double haul - off unit ensure the stranded wire running straightly.
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After the top of the barrel has been shaped, the coopers wrap cables around the base of the barrel and use a capstan to cinch up the base.
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These features are as just as diagnostic as slipways, docks, capstans, roperies, smithies or other such structural evidence.
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In these kind of capstan-head court-martials, at which captains will sometimes administer reefers 'law, "Woe to the weakest!
Rattlin the Reefer
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A small, strong raft, it may be forty feet square, with an upright windlass in its centre, called a capstan, is fastened to some part of the boom.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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Loaded down, Logan and Rytlock staggered out the cabin door and seated themselves on the capstan.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Also crazy "capstan" control of your reel-to-reel for early time-stretch, which, if you can understand it, makes time travel seem possible after all.
Review: Audio Damage Discord
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Bollards are prone to sudden collapse, and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval.
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Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail.
CHAPTER L
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Aside from a large winch, called a capstan, and various blocks and pulleys to take off some of the strain, eighteenth-century sailing ships relied on brute man power.
John Paul Jones
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Standing before a capstan lathe had made existence tolerable by providing the ambition to excel at what he was doing.
THE OPEN DOOR
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In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
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In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
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For every 30 inches of tape that zips by the heads in one second, the ATR capstan rotates just four times!
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We fell in on the foc'sle, leavin 'a large open space by the capstan, where our sail-maker was sittin' sewin 'broken firebars into the foot of an old' ammick.
Traffics and Discoveries
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I am intrigued by the capstan winches fitted to the Range Rovers on the Darien Gap crossing.
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He makes it fast to the cable - he reeves the jeer-fall through it - the jeer-fall is brought to the capstan, with the standing part belayed to the bitts.
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Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies.
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The space round the anchor capstans is interesting; it looks as if it was designed for a gang of sailors to work the capstan by hand if the powered mechanism should fail.
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The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
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Sanders does not use intermediate supports as his yarder works on an endless running line that is fed around two capstan wheels.
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Any rolling part can do it, but the major flutter-maker in your tape recorder is likely to be the capstan.
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Another model portrayed a more elaborate method of careening a ship using an enormous floating dock with a set of capstans to pull a hull onto one side.
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A variation is for a pair of capstans (vertically mounted winches), again more common on warships.
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He stood before an arrangement with a central capstan or gearbox from which horizontal arms of various lengths protruded in all directions.
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This morning the cable broke lifting a capstan winch into the bow.
THE BOOK LADY
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Helical Scan media, on the other hand, is pulled out of the cartridge shell, then led through a complicated system of guides and capstan rollers before being wrapped around a rotating head.
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The travelling motion is transmitted from the crane-engines by suitable gear and shafts to the travelling wheels, and warping-drums or capstans are fitted on a countershaft on the inner side of each frame, which drums can be driven independently of the travelling wheels for moving trucks into position below the crane as they are required for loading and unloading.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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Swimming over and down the foredeck we could see winches, anchor chains and capstans fitted to an intact deck, as if on the day the Justicia was lost.
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He makes it fast to the cable - he reeves the jeer-fall through it - the jeer-fall is brought to the capstan, with the standing part belayed to the bitts.
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For simpler tasks of pulling cars through a loading/unloading area a cable and capstan were used.
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Immediately beyond the bow, the foredeck capstans and deck winches could be seen.
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I retreated into the bow, past the capstan, on a line with the cathead.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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To minimise ice formation on the superstructure, all winches, capstans, etc. are placed under deck.
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Heading back from the bow past three pairs of bollards, the area of deck that would have held the anchor capstans has been cut open to leave a wide hole down into the forecastle.
