windlass

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
2. isim A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.

   “With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.”

3. isim An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
4. fiil 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.”

5. fiil To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.