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.
Anchor windlass,
Spanish windlass,
differential windlass,
chinese windlass,
The Aeronaut's Windlass,
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▸ 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.
Similar:
winch,
windlace,
windless,
wrench,
crab,
winchline,
Spanish windlass,
winchman,
rope winch,
winder,
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