The windlasses were turned more quickly Foot by foot the craft slid along until, with a final rush, the stern left the ways and the submarine was afloat.
Mr. Swift, and the various windlassesmanned by the inventor, Tom and the others began to unwind their ropes.
But there came a time when the windlassesover the rabbit-burrow prospector's shafts had made their last necessary revolution.
You are laid in a box; ropes on windlasses are tied to your ankles and wrists; then the windlasses are turned, inch by inch, till your joints are dislocated.
This gridiron has some interesting features not possessed by the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, which will be described a little further on, as at the Metropolitan Opera House there are no windlasses on the gridiron.
They slide in grooves cut in the joists, and are moved backwards and forwards by means of ropes which wind around windlasses which are operated from the mezzanine floor underneath the stage.
The borders and border lights are supplied to each of the movable stages, and each stage has its own trap floor, with traps and guides and windlasses for raising the traps.
This is the working level for all the traps, sliders, and bridges, and it is on this level that all the windlasses are placed which work the ropes to remove the sliders, bridges, etc.
The windlasses are used to raise heavy weights suspended from the gridiron, and are of the greatest possible use in aerial ballets and other theatrical performances.
On the fly floor are often placed windlasses used to raise the heavy weights which are suspended from the gridiron.
They reeled in the windlasses and stretched the soaking seine between them.
The seine itself was bent like a bow, its two ends straining toward the windlasses while the center arched into the lake.
Steam was the motive power first used for windlasses, but before the fighting came to an end America had developed both gas and electric windlasses which were thoroughly efficient.
Both were put into quantity production, assuring us a sufficient number of the best windlasses ever manufactured.
Tools were dropped, cradles and tubs abandoned, windlasses left to kick their cranks backwards.
Nowadays, except on an outlying muddy flat or in the hands of the retrograde Chinese, tubs, cradles, and windlasses were rarely to be met with.
The men at the windlasses spat into their horny palms and bent to the crank: they paused only to pass the back of a hand over a sweaty forehead, or to drain a nose between two fingers.
They have also made somewindlasses with which to haul their boats up hill, notably one at the foot of the cañon.
They have also made some windlasses with which they haul their boat up the hill till they are at the foot of the canyon.
This roadway and windlasses must have cost them many hours of hard labor.
The chains of these windlasses are attached to the extremities by clamps that lock by the pulling exerted.
For large diameters (150 millimeters and beyond) traction is employed by the aid of two small windlassesplaced opposite each other, and at a distance apart twice the greatest length of the bars to be finished.
In each of the other corners of the room were anchors of aluminum, also attached to windlasses and worked by steel springs.
The spring power was turned on, and thewindlasses drew the globe to within one hundred feet of the earth.
On a piece of wood near one of the windlasses was inscribed--"May the sea never wash over this junk.
Between the main-mast and fore-mast were two large rough windlasses stretching across the deck, and used for getting up the anchor.
The men are hard at work on these hills of "mullock," plying the windlasses by which the stuff is brought up from below, or puddling and washing off "the dirt.
There were a couple of shafts, small windlassesabove them, and two or three heaps of dirty-looking brown quartz and refuse.
After all the logs are safely sluiced, the chains of the guards are slipped, the rafts are broken up, and these, windlasses and all, follow the logs.
Meanwhile another bateau has been out with another anchor; and as both windlasses turn, the boom swings toward the anchorage, and thus is so much further on its way.
Its central shaft alone cost a million of dollars; and though steam power can not be used, yet it is so dry that horse windlasses can keep it clear of water.
The shaft is situated at the head of the ways, and sets in motion four double-gear windlasses of the type shown in Fig.
The windlasses that lift the bridge are actuated by manual power.
The two extreme ones comprise, one of them 7, and the other 6, tracks only, and are maneuvered by means of the same windlasses as the others.
But if we have to furnish machines for heavier loads, we must use timbers of greater length and thickness, providing them with correspondingly large bolts at the top, and windlasses turning at the bottom.
Beams of very generous length are selected, and upon them are nailed socket-pieces in which windlasses are inserted.
So, in the same manner, they are passed through to the other side, and stretched taut on the windlasses by means of the handspikes until they give the same sound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windlasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
