Exact Match:
- capstan
- a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- crab
collapse - a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a quarrelsome grouch
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind related words >
- Chinese windlass,
- Dungeness crab,
- Japanese crab,
- Spanish windlass,
- air a grievance,
- bank,
- beef,
- bellyache,
- bellyacher,
- bitch,
- bleat,
- blue point,
- bollix,
- capstan,
- cat flea,
- chigoe,
- clam,
- clamor,
- cockroach,
- complain,
- complainant,
- complainer,
- coquillage,
- cramp,
- crane,
- crank,
- crawdad,
- crawfish,
- crayfish,
- crib,
- crimp,
- croak,
- croaker,
- crosspatch,
- derrick,
- dip,
- dog flea,
- erector,
- faultfinder,
- feather,
- fishtail,
- flea,
- forklift,
- foul up,
- fret,
- fret and fume,
- frondeur,
- fuss,
- gantry crane,
- grayback,
- gripe,
- griper,
- groan,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- grouser,
- growl,
- growler,
- grumble,
- grumbler,
- grunt,
- gum,
- gum up,
- hoist,
- holler,
- howl,
- hydraulic tailgate,
- jack,
- jackscrew,
- jigger,
- kick,
- kicker,
- kvetch,
- langouste,
- lever,
- lift,
- lifter,
- limpet,
- littleneck clam,
- lobster,
- lodge a complaint,
- loop,
- louse,
- louse up,
- malcontent,
- mite,
- murmur,
- murmurer,
- mussel,
- mutter,
- mutterer,
- nit,
- oyster,
- parasite,
- periwinkle,
- plow,
- porpoise,
- prawn,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- push down,
- quahog,
- queer,
- querulous person,
- raise a howl,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebel,
- red bug,
- reel,
- register a complaint,
- roach,
- roll,
- sand flea,
- scallop,
- shellfish,
- shrimp,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- snafu,
- snail,
- soft-shell crab,
- sorehead,
- spin,
- spiral,
- squawk,
- steamer,
- stunt,
- tackle,
- take on,
- undulate,
- vermin,
- weevil,
- whelk,
- whiner,
- winch,
- windlass,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yaw,
- yawp,
- yelp
- reel
collapse
- a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- music composed for dancing a reel
- wind onto or off a reel related words >
- Charybdis,
- Chinese windlass,
- Spanish windlass,
- avoid,
- be drunk,
- be intoxicated,
- blench,
- blink,
- blunder,
- bob,
- bobble,
- call off,
- capstan,
- careen,
- career,
- centrifugate,
- centrifuge,
- coggle,
- crab,
- crank,
- crank in,
- cringe,
- dangle,
- dizzy round,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- draw in,
- draw taut,
- duck,
- eddy,
- enumerate,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- falter,
- flinch,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- gurge,
- gyre,
- hang back,
- heave,
- hobbyhorse,
- itemize,
- jib,
- labor,
- librate,
- list,
- lurch,
- maelstrom,
- make heavy weather,
- name,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- pass out,
- pendulate,
- pirouette,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- pitch and toss,
- plunge,
- pound,
- pull back,
- pull in,
- purl,
- quail,
- rat race,
- rear,
- recite,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- reel in,
- reel off,
- resonate,
- retreat,
- review,
- rock,
- roll,
- round,
- run over,
- run through,
- scend,
- see double,
- seethe,
- shake,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- spin,
- stagger,
- stammer,
- start aside,
- start back,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- surge,
- swag,
- sway,
- swerve,
- swim,
- swing,
- swinging,
- swirl,
- tackle,
- tauten,
- teeter,
- thrash about,
- tighten,
- topple,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trim,
- tumble,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- twirl,
- vacillate,
- vibrate,
- volutation,
- vortex,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wave,
- waver,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- weave,
- welter,
- wheel,
- whirl,
- whirligig,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- wince,
- winch,
- wind in,
- windlass,
- wobble,
- yaw
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