Usually means: Using a mechanism to raise.
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  1. windlassed: Merriam-Webster
  2. windlassed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. windlassed: Wiktionary
  4. windlassed: Dictionary.com
  5. windlassed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. windlassed: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (windlass)

noun:  Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
noun:  A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
noun:  An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
verb:  To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
verb:  To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
▸ Also see windlass


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