How To Use Windlass In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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This process saved the old timers the unproductive work and unnecessary sweat of windlassing all dirt up the shaft to the surface.
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I don't remember any problems at idling, however, last weekend it died on idle when I was windlassing an anchor.
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The cutter has a pair of windlassing lugs 1 and 3 which include enlarged portions 5 and 7 at their respective extremities.
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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
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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
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He also obtained a patent for a windlass for raising weights.
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Each day thousands of dollars 'worth of gold were scraped from bedrock and windlassed to the surface, and it all belonged to
THE FAITH OF MEN
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In his work Mi'yar al-'aqul ibn Sina defines simple machines and combinations of them which involve rollers, levers, windlasses, pulleys, and many others.
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The consultation ended in the men returning to the windlass, and the pitman going down again, carrying the wine and some other small matters with him.
Hard Times
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And as the windlass slowly turns they talk of other days,
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Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze.
Chapter XIII
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Underground, many artefacts can be seen, including stemples supporting stacked deads, ladders, pump rods and pipes, pulleys, ore tubs, windlasses, guide chutes and timbers.
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_The bandage twisted tightly by means of a windlass (stick) which is held by another bandage_
Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
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The front end of the beam was attached by a rope to a windlass.
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In season a mishmash of trypots, harpoons, windlasses and long boats were collected on the beach, ready for a shout from a lookout high on Paritutu.
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We should reinforce the downside of the windlass.
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There was no sign of any garrison, toll collector, windlass mules, or anything alive.
SABRIEL
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In addition, each member of the working party will carry one windlassing stick and the commander and assistant commander a pair of wire-cutters each.
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They had searched for the old mines, finding an old broken cradle and a windlass.
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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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And how many boats have their windlasses, cleats and bitts attached firmly enough that they would not tear out?
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It is me who, while still being beaten, raises the anchor by hand because they have already stolen the control cable that operates the windlass.
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I dropped the sail, rowed a line over to the dock, and began windlassing my way in.
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Casting off the shore lines, I kedged her out by main strength, (the windlass being broken), till she rode nearly up and down to the small anchor -- too small to hold her in any breeze.
Chapter 36
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The habitats landed at the base site which will be preselected for trafficability can have wheels attached to their landing gear legs, and then, with the aid of a cable and windlass, be rolled together to be either mated up directly or connected with the aid of inflatable tunnels.
The Case for Mars
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Everything in readiness, I made a line fast to the apex of the shears and carried it directly to the windlass.
Chapter 35
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The anchor windlass is located in a foredeck locker to keep it out of the way when not needed.
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In the mean time the carcass is windlassed to a height which brings it clear off the floor and the gammon level with a series of skids, a distance apart equal to the length of the gammon; the ends of which groove into smooth slots.
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The sediment and heavy substance accumulating in the bottom of the sewers, impervious to flushing, is removed by process of windlassing at the manholes and transporting to the dumps.
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A nautical man would have noticed, too, that she was hove short, right over her anchor, so that no time should be lost in bowsing that up to the cathead and getting under weigh, when the time came to man the windlass and heave up the cable, with a "Yo-heave ho!
Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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The windlass lies unaffected by more than a century of submersion.
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There was no sign of any garrison, toll collector, windlass mules, or anything alive.
SABRIEL
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I wuz -- I am mistook in my jedgments -- worse'n the men o 'Marblehead," said Disko, as though the words were being windlassed out of him.
Captains Courageous
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And how many boats have their windlasses, cleats and bitts attached firmly enough that they would not tear out?
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Friday, March 17: Father worked in the hole and Mr. Glover windlassed for him.
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His work was honoured by the award of a number of prizes, for calculating the distance travelled by a ship, for a study of ship's anchors, and for a study of cranes and windlasses.
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Noticing a man windlassing gravel in an apple orchard, on inquiry he learned that the man in digging a well had found pay gravel, and it had been his custom to drift from the bottom of his shaft, raise the pay dirt and wash it with a stream of water that he also used for irrigation on his farm and orchard.
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The windlass lies unaffected by more than a century of submersion.
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If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time.
Cape Cod
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Throughout the dark ages and down to the present century, the hideous and unnecessary apparatus employed, each decade bringing forth new types, is abundantly pictured in the older books on surgery; in some almost recent works there are pictures of windlasses and of individuals making superhuman efforts to pull the luxated member back -- all of which were given to the student as advisable means of treatment.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He was not a big as myself, but he was strong and wiry, and never seemed to have any trouble in windlassing a heavy bucket of rock or in pulling me out of the shaft.
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Hay cocks tended to split horizontally when they were being windlassed on to the steeply inclined ruck-shifter.
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Casting off the shore-lines, I kedged her out by main strength (the windlass being broken), till she rode nearly up and down to the small anchor — too small to hold her in any breeze.
Chapter 36
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Let her rest, my dear sir, at the bottom of her well; there she is, and there she will be for ever and ever, and depend upon it none of our windlassing will ever bring her up.
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And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him: If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finders craft, or stock new navies to the end of time.
Theocritus on Cape Cod
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Wind that windlass as gingerly as though it were a watch with a weak heart; you will be raising a kind of portcullis at the other end of the boathouse, but if you're heard doing it at dead of night we may have to run or swim for it.
Mr. Justice Raffles
