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Definition windlass

Etymology

From Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vind�ss (�windlass�, literally �winding-pole�), from vinda (�to wind�) + �ss (�pole�). Compare Icelandic vindilass.

Noun

windlass (plural windlasses)

1. Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
2. A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
3. An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

Verb

windlass (third-person singular simple present windlasses, present participle windlassing, simple past and past participle windlassed)

1. To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
2. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

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