Above, high on log-cabin staging, windlasses.

They have also made some windlasses with which they haul their boat up the hill till they are at the foot of the canyon.

They have also made some windlasses with which to haul their boats up hill, notably one at the foot of the cañon.

This roadway and windlasses must have cost them many hours of hard labor.

On this inclined plane, with the assistance of windlasses and numerous yokes of oxen, the vessels were hauled up one after the other to the summit of the hill, from whence they descended with difficulty to the point beyond the present arsenal, where they were launched into the port under the protection of batteries prepared for their defence.

To Dennis and others remained the arduous labour of guiding, with the help of windlasses, these immense logs to the river, whence they would descend in due time to the inlet, there to be joined together into vast rafts, later on again to be towed to their destination.

The press-reader sends me two valuable quotations, through Latham's edition of Johnson's Dictionary, from Dr. H. Hammond (1605-1660), in which windlass is used as a verb: 'A skilful woodsman, by windlassing, presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass, and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.

Elevation N. elevation; raising &c v.; erection, lift; sublevation^, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c (convexity) 250. lever &c 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge, dredger, dredging machine.

The mine consisted of a horizontal shaft, cut into the mountain-side, that had reached a depth of between two and three hundred feet; the ore being drawn up in large leathern buckets, by mule power, attached to a windlass.

Pretty young women chatter, laugh, and talk, and assume all sorts of picturesque attitudes as they fill their waterpots; the village matrons gossip, and sometimes quarrel, as they pull away at the windlass over the deep cool well.

Don't reckon the creakin' o' this windlass could disturb heror him.

More than forty men were employed upon the windlasses which drew it slowly forward.

That this is the fact is beyond all doubt, for Margaret Paston, writing to Sir John, says, "Ry't w'chipful hwsbond, I recomawnd to zw and prey zw to gete some crosse bowis and wydses (windlasses to strain cross-bows,) and quarrels (arrows with square heads) for zr howsis her ben low, yat yer may non man schet owt wt no long bowe."

It grew at last too close and wearisome; I went up on deck and lay down on the windlass, taking care to balance myself well before going to sleep.

Steel rails, however, had been brought for the cars, along with the cables and the metallic parts of the windlass; but all else was made upon the spot, including all the wooden pulleys for transmitting motion from the wheel to the windlasses.

Steel rails, however, had been brought for the cars, along with the cables and the metallic parts of the windlass; but all else was made upon the spot, including all the wooden pulleys for transmitting motion from the wheel to the windlasses.

The motor, by means of a belt, actuated a windlass provided with suitable checking gearings.

Then with a windlass I might draw the two vessels together.

Friday, May 19.An ominous stillness and repose at 3 o'clock this morning sent me forth to see why the windlass was not being manned.

I went to Washington in the early part of '50, going by canal to the western foot of the Alleghenies, and then by rail to the foot of the inclined plane, where our cars were wound up and let down by huge windlasses.

It was partly covered by the shrunken half of a lid, above which a rusty windlass creaked in company with the music of the pines when the wind blew strongly.

We camped out and dug holes around all summer, getting just about enough to pay our expensesnot a very encouraging venture, for we had lived in a tent and had picked and shoveled and blasted and twisted a windlass hard enough to have earned a good bit of money.

Before the boat had touched the side the crew were laboring at the noisy windlass with their shouts of "Yo heave ho! heave and pawl!

It was every hand to rope and windlass then.

While I was considering how I should get down, a bull with two heads peered over the edge of the wall and said he would haul me up if I would first climb up and rig a windlass for him.