Capstan is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 166 anagrams from letters in capstan (aacnpst).
1350-1400; Middle English Middle French cabestan(t) Old Provençal cabestan, variant of cabestran, presumably present participle of *cabest(r)ar, a verbal derivative of cabestre halter Latin c
The hatchway was closed, and the order to man the capstan was given a third time.
The messenger is brought to the capstan, or the cable to the windlass.
The gripes were now loosened, and the fall of one of the tackles was led to the capstan.
And none of them attempted to cut your lasso from their capstan?
Then Captain Mayo heard the steady clanking of capstan pawls.
He got round an old man's heart like a rope round a capstan.
The capstan bars are manned; the sunken cable is drawn taut.
Working at the windlass or capstan with more than usual exertion.
Suddenly the capstan went round an inch; then another and another.
capstan shanties are readily distinguishable by their music.
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