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    The windlass /ˈwɪndləs/ is an apparatus for moving heavy weights. Typically, a windlass consists of a horizontal cylinder (barrel), which is rotated by...
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    A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it may...
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  • The Aeronaut's Windlass is a 2015 steampunk fantasy written by Jim Butcher involving steampunk technologies, magical wars, and sentient cats. It is the...
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    USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4), a Gypsy-class salvage lifting vessel of the United States Navy, was originally conceived as LSM-552 and laid down on 27 August...
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    whereby if the toes are dorsiflexed, the plantar fascia tightens via the windlass mechanism. If a tensile force is then generated in the Achilles tendon...
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    attractions located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from each other: Ash Hollow Cave and Windlass Hill. A spring in the vicinity of Ash Hollow Cave made it an attractive...
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    intestines wound around a windlass. This version may have developed from interpreting an icon that showed him with a windlass, signifying his patronage...
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    hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers. The principle is similar to that of the windlass, which has a horizontal axle. The word, connected with the Old French capestan...
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    often be used for weighing (raising) the anchor after use. To do this, a windlass was usually fitted amidships and a davit in the stern (or sometimes the...
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    were made to finish the remainder of the route, with a diversion to the Windlass and Patapsco freeways, opened in 1973, following the cancelation of a more...
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    used to lift weights. This is thought to have been in the form of the windlass which consists of a crank or pulley connected to a cylindrical barrel that...
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  • The Solo Wings Windlass is a South African ultralight trike designed and produced by Solo Wings of Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal. The aircraft was also sold...
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    mechanism is unique in that it is driven by a flat-link chain connected to a windlass. The mensa itself was a sliding plank (similar to that on the gastraphetes)...
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    $30-$50 (USD). Results from laboratory and field testing suggest that windlass and pneumatic mechanisms are effective where other systems fail due to...
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  • (born 1958), also known as Alison Carroll, Alison Milyika Carroll, or "Windlass" Carroll, is an Aboriginal Australian artist. She is also a community leader...
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    Vij Books India Pvt. ISBN 978-93-86834-12-6. "Heavy Medieval 1250lbs Windlass Crossbow - TESTED in Slo-Mo". YouTube. "arbalest". Oxford English Dictionary...
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    for example, a quarry, to the job site and then lifted into place. The windlass consists of a drum on a horizontal axle anchored against displacement....
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    Human power was focused by the use of simple engines, such as the capstan, windlass or treadmill, and with ropes, pulleys, and block and tackle arrangements;...
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    autobiography, the Weston differential pulley evolved from the Chinese windlass, with an endless chain replacing the finite length of rope. He claimed...
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  • Newport, RI: The Museum of Yachting. Retrieved 14 November 2016 – via Windlass Creative [Sally Anne Santos]. [Quote:] Inducted to Single-Handed Sailors'...
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  • mountain using a complex system of pulleys and aided by the ship's anchor windlass. The crew falls asleep after a drunken celebration, and the chief of the...
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    pivot for anchoring and narrow at their tip. Anchor windlass A pawl is used in an anchor windlass to prevent a free-spooling chain by grabbing and snubbing...
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    v t e Parts of a sailing ship Aftercastle Afterdeck Anchor Anchor windlass Apparent wind indicator Beakhead Bilge Bilgeboard Bitts Boom brake Bow or prow...
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    surface of the inked type. The bed is rolled under the platen, using a windlass mechanism. A small rotating handle called the 'rounce' is used to do this...
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    and employ gear and pulley arrangements – levers, belt hooks, pulleys, windlasses and cranequins – to overcome very high draw weight. These potentially...
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    North Dakota November 13, 1897 Murder of a white family Hanged from a beef windlass Coudot, Alex Ireland, Phillip Murray, James White Bonanza Sebastian Arkansas...
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    effect, Water wheel, Wheelbarrow, Wheelie, Wheel of Fortune, Wheelwright, Windlass, Windmill Alternatives: Air cushion, Continuous track, Counter-rotating...
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    fire from the ship's stern. Forward on the gun deck in the bow area was a windlass, similar in function to the steerage capstan, which was used to raise and...
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    attributed the same boast to Archimedes' invention of the baroulkos, a kind of windlass, rather than the lever. A large part of Archimedes' work in engineering...
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    Chinese. Left image: a description of a windlass well, in Agostino Ramelli, 1588. Right image: Description of a windlass well, in Diagrams and explanations...
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