Examples of windlass in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun It's called a windlass, and it's used to raise the anchors. — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 Mar. 2021 No lives were lost, and parts of the ship from several timbers to the anchor-hoisting windlass remain preserved under the Great Lake. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2020 According to the museum, a large wooden windlass - a type of winch - that staff from Ludington State Park found a few years ago may also be from the same wreck. — CBS News, 4 May 2020 Other artifacts that will help archaeologists further identify and date the shipwreck include ceramic dinnerware, glass bottles, stoneware jugs, an anchor, wire rope rigging, a windlass, and a ship's bell, reported NOAA. — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019 Most tourniquets are called windlass-style tourniquets. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019 Cranes, windlasses and capstans (ancient water-raising devices based on a kind of swinging, see-saw design) may well have inspired the use of counterweights in early elevators and hoists. — Adrienne Bernhard, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2018 Other artifacts that will help archaeologists further identify and date the shipwreck include ceramic dinnerware, glass bottles, stoneware jugs, an anchor, wire rope rigging, a windlass, and a ship's bell, reported NOAA. — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2019 Most tourniquets are called windlass-style tourniquets. — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019

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