| typist | | |
| n. (person) | 1. typist | someone paid to operate a typewriter. |
| ~ employee | a worker who is hired to perform a job. |
| ~ touch-typist | a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard. |
| typewriter | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. typewriter | hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time. |
| ~ carriage | a machine part that carries something else. |
| ~ character-at-a-time printer, character printer, serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time. |
| ~ electric typewriter | a typewriter powered by an electric motor. |
| ~ keyboard | device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like. |
| ~ portable | a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried. |
| ~ typewriter ribbon, ribbon | a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter. |
| ~ stenograph | a machine for typewriting shorthand characters. |
| ~ typewriter carriage | a carriage for carrying a sheet of paper. |
| ~ typewriter keyboard | a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed. |
| windlass | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. winch, windlass | lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds. |
| ~ capstan | a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails. |
| ~ lifting device | a device for lifting heavy loads. |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| ~ yard donkey, yarder | a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road. |
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