windlass

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• Among many other initiatives, within months she had installed windlass lifts for the food, banned the dirt-carrying crinolines worn by the nursing staff, piped hot water and cut up worn chair covers for dishcloths.
• Take the launch out, carry the anchor to sternward, drop it, and then use the windlass to draw us off the rock. Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus
• The men are hard at work on these hills of "mullock," plying the windlasses by which the stuff is brought up from below, or puddling and washing off "the dirt. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
• The old men of the river tell me that he windlassed it, hauling from tree to tree, all the way over his own crude trail from Baker City, now Concrete, on the Skagit River to Baker Lake and finally up Swift Creek to the Fourth of July Mines!
• This process saved the old timers the unproductive work and unnecessary sweat of windlassing all dirt up the shaft to the surface.
• I don't remember any problems at idling, however, last weekend it died on idle when I was windlassing an anchor.
• The cutter has a pair of windlassing lugs 1 and 3 which include enlarged portions 5 and 7 at their respective extremities.
• Each day thousands of dollars 'worth of gold were scraped from bedrock and windlassed to the surface, and it all belonged to Pentfield and Hutchinson, who took their rank among the richest kings of Bonanza. The Faith of Men
• When all the snow was thrown out that could be reached with the long-handled snowshovels a rude windlass was made, and then the leather baglike bucket was brought into requisition, and the work went on as fast as it was possible to haul up the snow and have it dragged away on the dog-sleds. Winter Adventures of Three Boys
• He also obtained a patent for a windlass for raising weights.