English Dictionary

windlass

/ˈwɪnd.ləs/

verb

To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass. / To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

He used a windlass to raise the heavy crate.

意味（1）

To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.

A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.

意味（2）

To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.