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v. Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.

"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."

windlassed    windlasses    windlassing   

lifting device   

Spanish windlass    Spanish    Chinese windlass    differential   

yarder    yard donkey    capstan   

shift    roll    roller    capstan    hurdy-gurdy   

winch    capstan    pulley    saw    scaffolding