Whats a capston? what does it do?

A capstan is a rotating machine used to apply force to another element, notably used on board ship and on dock walls, for heaving-in or veering ropes, cables, and hawsers.

(Cut and pasted right out of wikipedia)

whikiwhat? it seems a lot of our users still don’t know of the existence of the site, maybe it’s an idea to add a “check on wikipedia” button on the question form…

Or a Google button.

Google knows. Google always knows.

yeah so true

if you know it’s true, why didn’t you just search yourself ?

ooh yeah I am SO SORRY FOR NOT CHECKING THE WIKI OR GOOGLE COZ I DONT KNOW THE SPELLING SINCE I HEARD I IN A MOVIE CALLE POTC3!!!!!SATISFACTORY ENOUGH???THOUGHT THAT PPL HERE MIGHT UNDERSTAND ME!!!

no need to shout

yeah

no one understands me either but you don’t hear me shouting like a little girl…