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| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A machine designed to drop and hoist the anchor. It has one or more cable lifters mounted on a horizontal shaft, each being fitted with a brake. The cable lifters are capable of being declutched from the prime mover. One or two warping ends may also be fitted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ANCHOR WINDLASS |
| Specialty definitions using "ANCHOR WINDLASS": CARPENTER, SHIP. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anchor windlass | 37 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANCHOR WINDLASS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | ankerspil (anchor capstan, capstan, windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ankerlier (windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ankkurivintturi (windlass), ankkuripeli (windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | guindeau (anchor capstan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Ankerwinde (capstan, windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαρούλκο άγκυρας (windlass), εργάτης άγκυρας (capstan, mooring capstan **2, warping capstan, windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | verricello salpancore (windlass), mulinello (Eddy, reel, swirl, tornado, whirlpool, whirlwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anchoray indlassway molinete (crab, drawing-machine, gin, hoist, pulley, turnstile, winch, windlass), guincho da amarra (windlass). (various references) molinete (brandish, whirligig, windmill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-w" | |
-4 letters: arachnoids. | |
-5 letters: arachnids, arachnoid, cardinals, chainsaws, chaldrons, chlordans, cordwains, crosswind, discrowns, draconian, handrails, holandric, ironclads, nonracial, orinasals, snowlands, wahcondas. | |
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