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chinese windlasses

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differential windlass

–noun
a pair of hoisting drums of different diameter turning at the same rate, such that a pulley suspended below them on a line wound on the larger drum and unwound from the smaller drum is raised with mechanical advantage.
Also called Chinese windlass.
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