I only have 3 needs for 3P, namely the windlass, capstan, and dive compressor. From Wordnik.com. [CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries] Reference
The Spanish windlass, which is used in surgery for controlling haemorrage, seemed to me to be applicable for fastening scions in place. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
A powerful coil steel spring operated the windlass. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
The serfs had secured the windlass and racked their poles. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
The windlass creaked and groaned, the rope swayed and strained, as. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Jake, grabbing the windlass, soon had the panorama slowly ascending. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He stepped to the windlass that raised the bell, and turned the handle. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
It had a boom reaching out over the wall and was operated by a windlass. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The men at the windlass are sinking a shaft, prospecting for drift-deposits. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Will never did a better thing than when he invented the spring power windlass. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Over this they set up the windlass, and then one of the men got in a big bucket. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
Never, so long as the theater stood, could that windlass be made to work silently. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
The windlass creaked protestingly and the heavy chain dropped slowly into the river. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
But after waiting a moment or two, Captain Rogers commanded the windlass to be manned again. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The handle of the windlass had caught him across the shoulders, sending him flying through the air. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Close to each end of the windlass are two holes, so adjusted that handspikes can be fitted into them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Then they had some queer-looking machines, a windlass, a force pump, grappling irons, and other tools. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
The man at the windlass is stopped, unshackles the chain, and lets the anchor go with a buoy attached. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
William Munroe and his son Will took a few turns at the windlass, and the ox would be lifted off his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Passing to the side farthest from the unsuspecting guards, the handle of the windlass was within his reach. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
An aluminum frame or cage, attached to a windlass by a chain of the same material, was used for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
One of the pillars contains a windlass, which in former times controlled the heavy canvas curtains from above. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The faded coat, which was the object of the journey, hung on the handle of the windlass at the newly sunk well. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The Officer of the Guard straightened, stretched for a moment, then glanced critically in at the windlass room. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Eagerly they turned the creaking old windlass and Susie descended to join Billiard in his underground explorations. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
The windlass is now to be turned by means of the handspikes, and it will raise the machine of itself without danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
After unloading, the raft was drawn back, by operation of the windlass on the opposite shore, where it took on another load. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Then a harpoon was thrown into the creature, and it was towed to the wharf, where it was slung and hoisted out with a windlass. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
So on, until the cable rattles over the windlass, as the good ship's anchor plunges down fathoms deep into the blue waters of the. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
This machine is worked by a windlass power, by a horse or yoke of oxen, and the price charged is twenty-eight cents a rod for the work. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Up they shot until they had attained an altitude of about five hundred feet, after which the windlass man checked their further progress. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
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