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v. Present participle of windlass.

"But outside, in the darkness, where holes yawned in the ground, were many men engaged in windlassing muck and gravel and gold from the bottoms of the holes where other men received fifteen dollars per day for scraping it from off the bedrock."

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