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Qué (quién) es windlass - definición
APPARATUS FOR MOVING HEAVY WEIGHTS, CONSISTING OF A HORIZONTAL CYLINDER (BARREL) ROTATED BY THE TURN OF A CRANK OR BELT; A WINCH IS AFFIXED TO ONE END, AND A CABLE IS WOUND AROUND THE WINCH, PULLING A WEIGHT ATTACHED TO THE OPPOSITE END
Chinese windlass; Differential windlass; Differential axle; Windlasses; Spanish windlass
windlass
(windlasses)
A windlass is a mechanical device for lifting heavy objects, which uses a motor to pull a rope or chain around a cylinder.
= winch
N-COUNT
Windlass
·noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
II. Windlass ·vi To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
III. Windlass ·vt & ·vi To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
IV. Windlass ·noun An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
V. Windlass ·noun A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
windlass
¦ noun a winch, especially one on a ship or in a harbour.
¦ verb haul or lift with a windlass.
Origin
ME: prob. an alt. of obs. windas, via Anglo-Norman Fr. from ON vindass, lit. 'winding pole'.
Wikipedia
Windlass
The windlass is an apparatus for moving heavy weights. Typically, a windlass consists of a horizontal cylinder (barrel), which is rotated by the turn of a crank or belt. A winch is affixed to one or both ends, and a cable or rope is wound around the winch, pulling a weight attached to the opposite end. The Greek scientist Archimedes was the inventor of the windlass. The oldest depiction of a windlass for raising water can be found in the Book of Agriculture published in 1313 by the Chinese official Wang Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty (fl. 1290–1333).
Ejemplos de uso de windlass
1. By the time the Katheryn slammed dully into a vacant berth outside the Lion Quays hotel, you‘d have needed the lock windlass to prise my blanched knuckles off the tiller.