capstan: [14] Capstan is a borrowing from Old Provençal. There the word was cabestan. Its earlier form capestran was a derivative of capestre ‘rope, noose’, which came from Latin capistrum ‘halter’. This in turn came from capere ‘take’, a prolific source of English words, and related to English heave. => capture, heave
capstan (n.)
late 14c., from Old French cabestant, from Old Provençal cabestan, from capestre "pulley cord," from Latin capistrum "halter," from capere "to hold, take" (see capable).
实用例句
1. Sailors hove up the cable with windlass or capstan.
水手们用绞盘或起锚机把缆绳拉起来.
来自辞典例句
2. Capstan imagesetter works such as shown in Figure 2.
绞盘式照排机的处事道理如图2所示.
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3. The two part capstan I turned and mounted the lower half.
