单词 | spanish windlass |
释义 | > as lemmasSpanish windlass Spanish windlass n. Nautical (see quot. 1846). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > wooden roller and lever Spanish windlass1846 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 290 Spanish-windlass, a wooden roller having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which rope an iron bolt is inserted as a lever for heaving it round. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 29 Heave both parts of the strop together with a Spanish windlass. < as lemmas |
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