cabestan.
capstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder)
Meaning & usage
capstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder)
Where this word comes from
From Middle French cabestant, of uncertain origin. Either from Old Occitan cabestran (“instrument to coil cords”), a noun use of present participle of verb cabestrar, from cabestre (“pulley rope”) ; or from Spanish cabestrante, cabrestante, from cabestrar (“to bind with a halter”), from cabestro (“halter”), from Latin capistrum (“halter”), from capere (“to hold”) (see capacious); or perhaps the Spanish is from Latin caper (“goat”) + -stans, present participle of stare (“to stand”); compare French chèvre (“she-goat”), also a machine for raising heavy weights.
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