The windlass man released the brake on the big drum, and the balloon shot upward with a speed that took the breath away from the two passengers.
By this time the balloon was fully inflated, and the observer gave the sign to the man in charge of the windlass to let the big gas bag rise.
Up they shot until they had attained an altitude of about five hundred feet, after which the windlass man checked their further progress.
Questions are then the windlass and the rope That pull the grave old gentlewoman up: Damn jokes then, and unmannerly suggestions, Reflecting upon kings for asking questions.
Could we by any means devise a windlass which would give us a sufficient purchase to haul the canoe to the sea?
Last of all, we fastened a handle to the drum in the same way as we had done with the smallwindlass in the hut.
We named the vessel Elizabeth Jane, and launched her, not by that device of the windlass we had used for the Fair Hope, but making a slipway of rollers, over which the men tugged her with ropes.
I ought to say that the windlass in the house was a very simple machine.
The anchor was fished, and after an interval he heard the windlass again, heaving in the other chain.
Having no dunnage but what they wore, they drew off toward the windlass and conferred together while chests and bags were dragged out on deck and overhauled by the officers for whisky and sheath-knives.
Then they shackled the schooner's end of the chain cable around the inner barrel of the windlass and riveted the key of the shackle.
Ropes passing over pulleys to a windlass in the after compartment were attached to the inboard end, and by turning the windlass the pole was drawn backwards or forwards as required.
On the plummet touching bottom, the tension in the cable between it and the anchor-chamber is lessened, and the windlass mentioned stops.
A windlass in the anchor-chamber now pays out the cable between it and the mine as the anchor-chamber sinks.
Tom Lokins was seated on the windlass smoking his pipe, and I was sitting beside him on an empty cask, sharpening a blubber-knife.
About midnight I sat down on the windlass to take a short rest, and began talking to one of the men, Fred Borders by name.
John Woolfolk fingered the wood surface of the windlass bitts and found it rough and gummy.
Halvard was seated on a coil of rope beside the windlass and stood erect as Woolfolk approached.
Otter seized the handle of the windlass and began to wind.
Into the guard-house, Baas; the windlass is there, but no man.
When the plummet has sunk to the end of its cord, its weight pulls down the spring, and the windlass begins to revolve and unreel the cable, the end of which is, of course, made fast to the bottom of the mine.
This releases a small weight or plummet at the end of a short line attached to a spring that keeps the windlass inside the anchor from revolving.
When the anchor rests on the bottom, the mine will be at the same distance beneath the surface of the water as the anchor had to sink after the windlass stopped, or the length of the plummet’s line.
The building should have a stationary boiler in it, and such apparatus as has been suggested, and a windlass used to do the lifting.
The gambrel should be long enough to catch on each side when turned crosswise, thus relieving the windlass so that a second carcass may be hoisted.
Ten inches beyond the windlass, d, is a 4x4 inch piece with arms bolted on the end to turn the windlass and draw up the carcass, which should be turned lengthwise of the hoister until it passes between c, c.
It is a 'windlass shanty,' an' we sings it to the music of the winch.
But a few turns of the windlass sufficed to draw the wings out at an angle to the boom; whereupon the force of the current, sweeping strongly against their faces, would slowly sway the whole free length of the boom toward the opposite shore.
For instance, the bed-plate of the engine came from New York, and it was mush; so were the casting and gears for the windlass that came from San Francisco.
The castings had flaws; they shattered asunder, the gears ground together, and the windlass was out of commission.
Between times she wriggled and capered like a dancing elephant and jerked at her cable until it seemed as though she would take her windlass out.
The windlass grunted and whined as the schooner came up on her hawser with a thump, and overhead a useless jib slatted and rattled.
The watch laid hold the windlass poles and hauled the vessel forward directly above her hook.
Four men heaved on the windlass brakes, and the others got sail on her as fast as they could haul halyards.
Now get a crooked bough, as nearly the shape of a handle as nature has produced it, and trim it into right angular shape, fit one end into the barrel, and you have a windlass that will pull up many a ton of stuff.
Put a peg in the windlass and let the anchor swing in the water.
But they tugged away at the anchor windlass till the flukes let go the bottom and the anchor was halfway up.
I slipped down, and the windlass was slowly unwound.
Keene accompanied me next day to the little farm, and there we found half-a-dozen men with ropes and windlass ready to assist in the exploit.
The windlass creaked and groaned, the rope swayed and strained, as Tabitha slid out of sight, while Irene raced madly away to do her bidding.
Eagerly they turned the creaking old windlassand Susie descended to join Billiard in his underground explorations.
Both tackles were secured to it and all hands took to the windlass levers.
On deck I could see a crowd at the windlassheaving up anchor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windlass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
