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1) Windlass
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A winch used for hauling heavy weights like the anchor. A vertical cylinder with handles that is rotated manually by several of the crew and around which a cable is wound.
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[nautical] A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to apply force to ropes, cables, and hawsers. The principle is similar to that of the windlass, which has a horizontal axle. == History == The word, connected with the Old French capestan or cabestan(t), from Old Provençal cabestan, from capestre `...
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[tape recorder] Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released exclusively for the Sony PlayStation 2 on December 3, 2001 and is the first video game in the Jak and Daxter series. The game follows the protagonist, Jak, as he tries to help his fri...
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A large winch with a vertical axis. A full-sized human-powered capstan is a waist-high cylindrical machine, operated by a number of hands who each insert a horizontal capstan bar in holes in the capstan and walk in a circle. Used to wind in anchors or other heavy objects; and sometimes to administer flogging over.
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A large winch with a vertical axis. A full-sized human-powered capstan is a waist-high cylindrical machine, operated by a number of hands who each insert a horizontal capstan bar in holes in the capstan and walk in a circle. Used to wind in anchors or other heavy objects; and sometimes to administer flogging over.
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upright device for winding in heavy ropes or cables
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upright device for winding in heavy ropes or cables
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Vertical drum-like machine to heave rope or chain. Whelps (wood or metal strips) around the spindle grabbed the line, while pawls (hinged pieces of iron) at the base prevented the capstan from rotating backward. Sailors pushing on bars inserted into square pigeon holes in the head manually turned the device. Later, steam or electric power revolved ...
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• (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a ...
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mechanical device used chiefly on board ships or in shipyards for moving heavy weights by means of ropes, cables, or chains. Capstans also have been ...
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spindle or a shaft, often the motor shaft itself, which drives the magnetic tape during the recording or reproducing action
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A capstan is a cylinder or drum rotated by handles used to raise an anchor or a rope.
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a mechanism for raising and anchor, on larger ships this would often be a large ratcheted pulley with several spoke that a number of crewmen turned to wind the anchor cable up, raising the anchor a little at a time
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Cap'stan noun [ French
cabestan , from Spanish
cabestrante ,
cabrestante , from
cabestrar to bind with a halter, from
cabestro halter, from Latin
capistrum halter, from
capere to hold (see
Capacious ); or perhaps the Spanish is from Latin
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A capstan is an engine for raising weights. A ship's capstan is a revolving barrel with a vertical axis powered by people used for winding cable, raising the anchor etc. A capstan is distinguished from a windlass by the axis, and consequently the barrel, being vertical.
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drum like part of the windlass used for winding in rope, cables, or chain connected to cargo or anchors
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large manual winch used for any extremely heavy lifting; especially the raising of the anchor
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The Capstan is the drive spindle on a tape machine.
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slim roller on tape machine which along with a pinch roller, helps to maintain the correct tension of the tape relative to the tape head.
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A rotating wheel mounted vertically, used to wind in anchors or other heavy objects; and sometimes to administer flogging over.
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[Treasure Island] an apparatus around which cables or hawsers are wound for hoisting anchors. The devise resembles a tuning peg on a stringed instrument, so the captain's voice sounds as if it had been tuned too tightly and broken.
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noun a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
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An apparatus used for hoisting weights, consisting of a vertical spool-shaped cylinder that is rotated manually or by machine and around which a cable is wound.
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