Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of small craft, to support the ends of the windlass.
·noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. II. Windlass ·vi To take a rounda...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[from the Ang.-Sax. windles]. A machine erected in the fore-part of a ship which serves to ride by, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Pieces indented into a wooden anchor-stock where it has become worn or defective in the way of the s...
Clamps of wood upon which a boat rests when stowed on a vessel's deck. ...
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
Large pieces of hard wood with a hole in the centre, shod with iron collars, and fastened between tw...
See chock. ...
A light windlass for barges. ...
A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is...
See carrick-bitts. ...
Two pieces which continue the windlass outside the bitt-heads. ...
Pieces of hard wood fitted round the main-piece of a windlass to prevent chafing, and also to enable...