Usually means: Tightening device using stick, rope.
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  1. Spanish windlass, Spanish windlass: Merriam-Webster
  2. Spanish windlass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Spanish windlass: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Spanish windlass: Wordnik
  5. Spanish windlass: Wiktionary
  6. Spanish windlass: Dictionary.com
  7. Spanish windlass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. spanish windlass: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Spanish windlass: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spanish windlass)

noun:  (nautical) A wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marlinspike is thrust to serve as a lever.

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