| Windlass: English to Bangla |
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| Windlass: English to English | | Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the | | Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. | | Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. | | Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. | | Windlass (v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass. | |