English Dictionary

windlass

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɪnd.ləs/

動詞

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.

日本語の意味

ウインチを用いて（またはウインチのように）持ち上げる、引き上げる / 遠回りをする、用心深くまたは間接的な方法で操作する

Windlass the cargo onto the deck before nightfall, and we'll lash it down.

夜が来る前に荷物を巻き上げ機で甲板に引き上げてください。こちらで固定します。

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.

windlasses （ present singular third-person ）

windlassing （ participle present ）

windlassed （ participle past ）

windlassed （ past ）