Use of the word capstans in a sentence example

capstans

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While moving vehicles by capstans, turn tables, props, levers, &c... [Please select]

The obelisk, having been placed on a kind of timber car or sledge, was drawn up by means of ropes and capstans. [Please select]

Then he wound the cable-ends around the capstans, ordered all his fighting-men out of sight, and waited for his rival. [Please select]

Some are worked by handspikes and windlasses, some by blocks and pulleys, others by capstans, others again by means of drums. [Please select]

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