windlass

• ⇰ बेलन -चरखा
• ⇰ बेलन-चरखी
• ⇰ सामान उठाने का उपकरण{रस्सी या जंजीर से चीजों को उठाने का उपकरण}
• ⇰ हस्तघर्घरी

• ⇰ A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
• ⇰ 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
• ⇰ An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

• ⇰ To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

• ⇰ To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.