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Laborer vs Windlass - What's the difference?

laborer | windlass |

As nouns the difference between laborer and windlass

is that laborer is one who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly while windlass is any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights.

As a verb windlass is

to raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.

laborer

English

Alternative forms

* labourer

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.
  • windlass

    Noun

    (es)
  • Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
  • A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
  • * 1599 , , Ham II. i. 65:
  • With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
  • An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

  • To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
  • (The Century)
  • To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
  • (Hammond)