windlass

One step at a time the windlass began to turn.

Windlass can be used to raise water from a well.

It was the first time we ever tried to use that windlass.

Even our small windlass had a pull of over 1,400 pounds.

But I had no time to look; it was taking all my strength to work the windlass.

Then four men stood at each windlass to throw their weight to the thing.

He had not well done speaking, when the windlass was reversed and worked again.

I walked across the bar of the windlass and dropped to his side.

"Do not let those of the windlass room know what was done to me," I begged.

I saw one of them, a quarrel in his back, fall away from the windlass.

He let go the electronic windlass and heard the anchor hit the water.

A dozen more strong men were added to the windlass and they fell to with all their might.

All day, laboring at the windlass or in the well, he had thought of her.

One of them ripped out the wedge from the windlass.

And at the end of three days I had a windlass which worked clumsily.

There were five large poles, or bars, set in the windlass.

He also wished there was some way to get word up to the crew of the windlass now so far above.

I was growing to have faith in that windlass, for it gave me power beyond all expectation.

Tom called to the men below, who were paying out the ropes from the windlasses.

"Do not look for pretty slaves in the chamber of the windlass," he said.

In fact, they could distinctly hear the creaking of the windlass.

I had a happy thought: I could use myself as a windlass.

The two slaves near me bent to the rack windlass.

It will take the power of all the windlasses together to turn the things, and even then it may not work.

They strained at the windlass handles until their eyes popped.