How to pronounce“windlass”in English
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Definitions of “windlass”
Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
“With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.”
To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
“A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.”
To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
“He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.”
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