Spanish windlass

noun

1. a stick used as a device for twisting and tightening a rope or cable

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For parchment the 'linings' are tied in a frame by strings fastened round grooved pegs, on the same principle as a Spanish windlass....

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Oh, that," said Penn, proudly, "is a Spanish windlass.

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A Spanish Windlass.—To rig a Spanish Windlass take a good strand well greased in the centre.

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For bending the sides a "Spanish windlass" of rope or chain was used.

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The windlass may be said also to be supported or reinforced by the pawl-bitts, two powerful bitt-heads at the centre.—Spanish windlass.

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