windlass-ends

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• Windlass

  ·noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. II. Windlass ·vi To take a rounda...

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• windlass

  [from the Ang.-Sax. windles]. A machine erected in the fore-part of a ship which serves to ride by, ...

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• hinder-ends

  the sweepings of a barn after win-nowing. North. See hearken. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• tail-ends

  the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own con...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• beam-ends

  A ship is said to be on her beam-ends when she has heeled over so much on one side that her beams ap...

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• crab-windlass

  A light windlass for barges. ...

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• deal-ends

  Applied to deal-planks when under 6 feet in length. ...

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• hood-ends

  The ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem and stern posts. ...

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• spanish windlass

  A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is...

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• windlass-bitts

  See carrick-bitts. ...

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• windlass-chocks

  Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of small craft, to support the ends of the windl...

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• windlass-lining

  Pieces of hard wood fitted round the main-piece of a windlass to prevent chafing, and also to enable...

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• wood-ends

  See hood-ends. ...

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• blocked at both ends

  Finished. The game is blocked at both ends; the game is ended. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose