They are also held in their places in the drumhead holes, by little iron bolts called capstan or safety pins, to prevent their flying out when the surging overcomes the force of the men.
Its use is to receive the spindle or foot on which the capstan rests and turns round.
So that by putting on fresh nippers forward, and taking them off as they are hove aft, the capstan may be kept constantly going, and the cable is walked in without stopping.
When about to weigh, to shift the eyes of the messenger past the capstan for the heavy heave.
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of heaving.
A solid piece of cast-iron let into the step of the capstan, and in which the iron spindle at the heel of the capstan works.
They are used to heave the capstan round, by the men setting their hands and chests against them, and walking round.
The holes in which swivel-pintles, or the capstan or windlass spindles move.
The vertical iron pin upon which the capstan moves.
Also, the cast-iron frame in which the dropping pauls of a capstan traverse, and bring up the capstan.
A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or windlass while it is overhauled.
Is the order to turn the capstan or windlass till the paul may be put in, by which it is prevented from coming up, and is something similar to belay, applied to a running rope.
Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ.
Hove well short, the position of the ship when she is drawn by the capstan nearly over her anchor.
When he passed a small gun pointed across the deck, and with a nightcap hung upon a capstan bar thrust into its muzzle, there was such a great laugh that Bonnet looked around to see what the imprudent Greenway might be doing.
A group gathered around the capstan aft, after the hammock ceremony had been completed.
By using capstan bars and men at them, instead of ropes at the ends of the arms worked by crabs, you will find about one-fifth more power is gained, or rather is not lost.
Wrought-iron capstan heads are used, but cast-iron are perhaps better.
The best height for the capstan bars above the floor stage is from 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 6 inches.
How do you fix the capstan head to the pile shaft?
As the capstan is subject to great wear and tear and sudden strain, it should be strong, for if it breaks the work is stopped.
Man-power can be used anywhere, machines in most places, but horses and oxen only on land when the piles are screwed on a foreshore or between tides; of course all live power works at the end of the capstan bars.
The size and strength of the staging must be regulated according to the power available for screwing the piles, but the length of the lever arms and the capstan bars require a space in which to revolve, from, say, 35 to 60 feet square.
A man must be stationed at the end of the capstan bars to put the slack ends of the taut and slack ropes into the slots.
Sometimes the capstan sockets are made to fit the ends of rails, if rails instead of timber are used for the capstan bars, but rail bars are rather heavy and are not nice to handle.
The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.
A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor.
The other end of the line, which has remained all the time on board the ship, is now attached to the capstan or the windlass, and the line is drawn in.
Immediately Deschamps put his finger upon the top of the capstan and stopped the revolutions of the slots.
With a swift motion of his hands he picked up one of the little ivory balls and twirled the capstanin the disc.
Ethel hesitated, and as she did so the croupier swung the capstan and spun the ball.
The capstan was manned, and the hawsers were hove taut.
The anchor was fixed, and the men strained at the capstan with a will, but, notwithstanding their utmost efforts, they could not penetrate the shore ice.
Then, with the measured tramp of feet as the capstan revolved, the cable descended slowly into its tier, adding to the odours of the hold the pungent smells of seaweed and mud.
At daybreak on the following morning the welcome order to weigh was given, and as the capstan revolved to the cheery song of the seamen the anchor came home, after an acquaintance of nearly two years with the bed of the bay.
When this had been accomplished all hands seizedcapstan bars.
Desperately I seized a capstan bar and knocked the wedges and battens off a hatch cover.
Now, the capstan and the engine that drove it had been newly painted red and green; besides which, nobody cares for being ducked.
Don't you do that again," the capstan sputtered through the teeth of his cogs.
This organized conspiracy on your part," the capstan gurgled, taking his cue from the mast.
Then a halt was called while the mate re-examined the well-greased runners, and then gave the word for the men to ply their capstanbars once more.
The sailor forgot all about the wounded in the cabin, and running right forward, he seized a capstan bar for a weapon, and then went to the side waiting to help and repel the attack, if any of the enemy managed to reach the deck.
I made the men tell them with capstan bars, and as soon as a black head appeared above the bulwarks it went down again.
IV At the end of an hour he found himself sitting on a capstan by the river, his elbows on his knees and his head buried in his hands.
The mooring ropes of the nearest vessel strained tensely on the capstan and the giant vessel seemed eager as a stabled colt to get out, away and free.
Not a man-jack of the crew would venture into the fore-hold, where Blue Blazes was still harnessed to the capstan bars.
Blue Blazes was taken down into the gloomy fore-hold of a three-masted lake schooner, harnessed securely between two long capstan bars, and set to walking in an aimless circle while a creaking cable was wound about a drum.
The line was then taken to the steam capstan and the boat would be hauled out of a position from which it would have been impossible to release her by the engines and wheel alone.
The barrel of the capstanis concave; the line feeds on to it at the thickest part, either at the top or the bottom of the capstan.
At either end of the craft was a deck for eight or ten feet, the forward or forecastle deck having a windlass or capstan for pulling the boat off bars, or warping through swift water or over rapids.
The scuffling of feet and the fall of the heavy capstan bar caused the second mate to turn quickly, and at the same moment the captain's door opened and he stepped out on the deck.
In ten minutes the ninety and odd hammocks were all stowed neatly in the netting, and covered with a snowy hammock cloth; and the hands were active, unbitting the cable, shipping the capstan bars, etc.
The capstan is manned, the sails loosed, the quarter-master at the wheel, and the wind freshens every moment from the “sweet south.
And, before he went to sleep in the evening, The very last thing that he could see Was the sailor-men a-dancing in the moonlight By the capstan that stood upon the quay.
To the tune of an old concertina, By the capstan that stands upon the quay.
But the very last thing that he will see Will be sailor-men a-dancing in the sunrise By the capstan that stands upon the quay.
So the purser, at a nod from the captain, put it up again, and the sale went on, each buyer in turn turning the certificate over to the purser, until the noble emulation covered the capstan with gold.
At eight bells we assembled around the capstan at our captain's call, when the few poor effects of the lost man were laid out to view.
If it had not been done at the capstan it could not have been done since I came aboard; for there had been no other opportunity.
We were moving slowly under the influence of the oared boats ahead of us, when a seaman at the forward capstan began to sing the solo part of an old capstan chanty.
It would have been impossible for any one to have cut the strap there; for the capstan was always revolving.
I was at the capstan there, heaving round with the best of them, until we were standing out to sea, beyond the last of the fairway lights, with our sails trimmed to the strong northerly wind.
I ran to the capstan to heave with them, so that I, too, might sing.
But now and then their eyes met, across the length of the Sally; and one night at the cutting in, she heard Brander singing a chanty to inspire the men as they tugged at the capstan bars.
And at each high tide, she made the men stand to the capstan bars, and fight in desperate efforts to fetch the Sally free.
Before that day was gone, they had half her load out of the Sally; and at full tide that night, with every hand tugging at a line or breasting a capstan bar, they hauled her off.
Soon he was carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and gently landed upon the capstan head.
About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capstan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
