windlass
📖 Definitions
noun
A device for lifting or hauling, using a rope or cable wound around a cylinder.
verb tr.
To extract, lift, or bring forth with deliberate, steady effort.
💬 Usage Examples
“We talk about our lives, dreams we had, and what we want to do in the future. It is as if the round tower is windlassing stories out of us.” Rosita Boland; The Martello Tower and the Magic Carpet of the Irish Sea; Irish Times (Dublin); Jul 13, 2015. “As though the words were being windlassed out of him.” Rudyard Kipling; Captains Courageous; Doubleday; 1897.