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Type Of Windlass Crossword Clue

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noun

• a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails

36%9 A word derived from the Italian 'parbucolo' meaning 'a pulley or windlass'
noun

• A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.

• A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.

verb

• To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle

36%5 Ratchet or windlass parts
noun

• a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

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New York Times02 Jan 1985 Across 50
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