Windlass
['wɪndləs]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
(v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
(n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
(n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
(v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
杰西編輯
解釋/意思:
n. (Shak.) indirect crafty action.—v.i. to take a round-about course.
n. a modification of the wheel and axle used for raising weights consisting of a revolving cylinder.—v.i. to use a windlass.—v.t. to hoist by means of such.
校對:马里恩
例句/造句/用法:
- He had not well done speaking, when the windlass was reversed and worked again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The rope went out as before, the signal was made as before, and the windlass stopped. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- In poorer houses, water is laboriously carried in buckets from the spring or is lifted from the well by the windlass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The priest put on a short white lace garment over his black robe, crossed himself, bowed reverently, and began to turn a windlass slowly. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The signal was given and the windlass stopped, with abundant rope to spare. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The consultation ended in the men returning to the windlass, and the pitman going down again, carrying the wine and some other small matters with him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- For, now, the rope came in, tightened and strained to its utmost as it appeared, and the men turned heavily, and the windlass complained. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Apparently so long an interval ensued with the men at the windlass standing idle, that some women shrieked that another accident had happened! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The employment of the rope, pulley and windlass to raise water was known to Hero and his countrymen as well as by the Chinese before them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- So they attached levers, pulleys, ratchets and windlasses, until at last they reached the size of the great siege cross-bows, weighing eighteen pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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