hand gin

1) A hand windlass.

1668 with the use and liberty of the horse-gin and hand-gin, Seacroft. This was a primitive way of drawing coal and of moving miners up and down the shaft but even when more efficient methods were devised it did not entirely disappear: 1836 we have opened two small pits, each wrought by a hand windlass, Grange Moor.

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