köken: From Middle French cabestant, of uncertain origin. Either from Old Occitan cabestran (“instrument to coil cords”), a noun use of present participle of verb cabestrar, from cabestre (“pulley rope”) ; or from Spanish cabestrante, cabrestante, from cabestrar (“to bind with a halter”), from cabestro (“halter”), from Latin capistrum (“halter”), from capere (“to hold”) (see capacious); or perhaps the…
een vertikaal opgestelde windas die rondgedraaid wordt door middel van vier of meer handspaken, en waarmee zware lasten kunnen worden geheven of verplaatst
anchor windlass, anchor capstan (machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised and lowered by means of chain cable)
çekim: çoğul ankkuripelit · tamlayan ankkuripelin
köken: ankkuri + peli, probably calque of Swedish ankarspel (“anchor windlass”)
Diminutive of sūs (“pig”) · winch, windlass, capstan (or similar device)
çekim: çoğul suculae · tamlayan suculae
köken: From sūs (“pig, hog, sow”) + -cula (diminutive suffix), at least when used literally. The more frequent "winch", "windlass" sense is most often explained as a metaphorical extension of this, by the resemblance of the device and the attached apparatus to a sow with her litter; the use of porculus (“little piglet”) figuratively to refer to a hook or clutching device used with a sucula indicates…
Palaestra post sicilicula argenteola et duae conexae maniculae et / sucula. Gripus quin tu i dierecta, cum sucula et cum porculis
Uncertain. Probably from Occitan cabestran (“capstan”) (see also Occitan cabestre) by metathesis, ultimately from Latin capistrum. If so, related to cabestro. See also French cabestan.