Definition of "windlasses" [windlasses]

• Plural form of windlass. (noun)

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• "I was acquiring more confidence in myself and more confidence in the possibilities of windlasses, shears, and hoisting tackles."
• "And then there is the river Charles, no longer clear and bright, as when trees and hills and flowers were mirrored on its surface, but foul, turbid, and polluted, with ship-yards and steam-engines and cranes and windlasses on its margin; and here Quebec ends."
• "Or if you choose, it may be done thus: instead of the naves, lay a moderate-sized beam under the couch, and then having fastened pieces of wood in this beam, both before and behind the head, make counter-extension by means of thongs, or place windlasses at this extremity and that, and make extension by means of them."