aid likewise to indicate bad weather if seen to leeward.

WINDING A CALL. The act of blowing or piping on a boatswain's whistle,
to communicate the necessary orders. (_See_ CALL.)

WINDING-TACKLE. A tackle formed of one fixed triple three-sheaved block,
and one double or triple movable block. It is principally used to hoist
any weighty materials, as the cannon, into or out of a ship.

WINDING-TACKLE PENDANT. A strong rope made fast to the lower mast-head,
and forming the support of the winding-tackle.

WIND IN THE TEETH. Dead against a ship.

WINDLASS [from the Ang.-Sax. _windles_]. A machine erected in the
fore-part of a ship which serves to ride by, as well as heave in the
cable. It is composed of the carrick-heads or windlass-heads, which are
secured to all the deck-beams beneath, and backed by long sleeper knees
on deck. The main-piece is whelped like the capstan, and suspended at
its ends by powerful spindles falling into metal bearings in the carrick
or windlass heads. Amidships it is supported by chocks, where it is also
furnished with a course of windlass-pawls, four taking at separate
angles on a main ratchet, and bearing on one quadrant of the
circumference. The cables have three turns round this main-piece (one
cable on each side): holes are cut for the windlass-bars in each eighth
of the squared sides. The windlass may be said also to be supported or
reinforced by the pawl-bitts, two powerful bitt-heads at the
centre.--_Spanish windlass._ A machine formed of a handspike and a
small lever, usually a tree-nail, or a tree-nail and a marline-spike, to
set up the top-gallant rigging, heave in seizings, or for any other
short steady purchase.

WINDLASS-BITTS. _See_ CARRICK-BITTS.

WINDLASS-CHOCKS. Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of
small craft, to support the ends of the windlass.

WINDLASS-ENDS. Two pieces which continue the windlass outside the
bitt-heads.

WINDLASS-LINING. Pieces of hard wood fitted round the main-piece of a
windlass to prevent chafing, and also to enable the cable to hold on
more firmly.

WINDLESTRAY. A sort of bent or seaside grass.

WINDLIPPER. The first effects of a breeze of wind on smooth water,
before waves are raised.

WIND-RODE. A ship is wind-rode when the wind overcomes an opposite tidal
force, and she rides head to wind.

WINDS. _Local_ or _peculiar_.--_Trade-winds_ occur within and beyond the
tropical parallels. They are pretty regular in the Nor