trispast

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek τρῐ́σπαστος (tríspastos, “drawn threefold”).

Noun

trispast (plural trispasts)

1. A machine with three pulleys which act together to raise great weights.

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Synonyms

• trispaston

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trispast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• patrists