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
köken: First attested in the 15th century. Probably from Old Northern French, from Old Norse vinda (“to wind”) + ass (“pole”), from Proto-Germanic *windaną (“to wind”) + *astaz (“branch”). Cognate with Icelandic vindilass and English windlass.
destes por duas palmelas et dous golfoos et cravos para o gindastes dose moravedis
o caldeiro é grande e negro, e colga dun guindastre (unha viga que xirando pon o caldeiro sobor do lume)