polyspast

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) polyspaston, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) πολύσπαστον (polúspaston)

Noun

polyspast (plural polyspasts)

1. A machine consisting of many pulleys
   • 1849, Adalbert, Travels of His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia, page 275,

     The Bishop of Chrysopolis, his Majesty's former tutor, consecrated the foundation-stone, which was suspended from two elegant polyspasts; the Emperor himself laid it.

2. (deprecated template usage) (surgical) A machine of many pulleys, formerly used to reduce dislocation
3. (deprecated template usage) (mechanics) A windlass with many pulleys and truckles

Translations

machine consisting of many pulleys

• French: polyspaste (fr) m, moufle (fr) f
• German: Flaschenzug (de) m, Zugwerk n
• Italian: polispasto m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: полиспаст (ru) (polispast)
• Spanish: polispasto m
• Ukrainian: поліспаст (polispast)

References

• “polyspast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Bailey, Nathan (1737) The Universal Etymological English Dictionary