Crossword-Solution: WINDLASS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Windlass | n. | A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. |
| Windlass | v. i. | To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. |
| Windlass | n. | A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam. |
| Windlass | n. | An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. |
| Windlass | v. t. & i. | To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “WINDLASS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apparatus for hoisting. | 1 answer |
| Bucket raiser | 1 answer |
| Device for raising the old oaken bucket. | 1 answer |
| Relative of a capstan | 1 answer |
| winch | 5 answers |
| whin | 5 answers |
| CAPSTAN ___ | 5 answers |
| Lifting device | 13 answers |
| lifter | 15 answers |
| gin | 26 answers |
| Hoist | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WINDLASS (5)
Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
With two to feed its sateless greed, it worked for seven score, And I sighed: "Ah, old-time miner, here's your doom!" The idle windlass turns to rust; the sagging sluice-box falls; The holes you digged are water to the brim; Your little sod-roofed cabins with the snugly moss-chinked walls Are deathly now and mouldering and dim.
The cable, for its preservation, was also carefully served or wattled with pieces of canvas round the windlass, and with leather well greased in the hause-hole.
But when I stood there by the arrow-slit, looking down into the moonlight of the circus, these chains were slackened (though men stood by the windlass of each), and the great striped brutes were prowling about the circus with the links clanking and chinking in their wake.
She was about 400 tons, had a primitive windlass, wooden latches to the doors, not a bit of brass about her, and a big square stern.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2001).