Definition of "windlassed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of windlass. (verb)

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• "Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze."
• "Each day thousands of dollars 'worth of gold were scraped from bedrock and windlassed to the surface, and it all belonged to"
• "And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him: “If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder’s craft, or stock new navies to the end of time."