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• USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4) — was originally conceived as LSM 552 and laid down on 27 August 1945 at Houston, TX, by Brown Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 9 April 1946 in Houston at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Docks, Lieutenant… …   Wikipedia

• Spanish windlass — /spænɪʃ ˈwɪndləs/ (say spanish windluhs) noun a stick or bolt used as a lever for twisting or tightening a rope looped at one end around a heavy object which is to be moved and, at the other end, around an immovable object; the tightening of the… …  

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