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wind·lass 
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Audio Help [wind-luhs] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a device for raising or hauling objects, usually consisting of a horizontal cylinder or barrel turned by a crank, lever, motor, or the like, upon which a cable, rope, or chain winds, the outer end of the cable being attached directly or indirectly to the weight to be raised or the thing to be hauled or pulled; winch. |
| 2. | to raise, haul, or move (a load) by means of a windlass. |
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Windlass
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n. Any of numerous hauling or lifting machines consisting essentially of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank or a motor so that a line attached to the load is wound around the cylinder. tr.v. wind·lassed, wind·lass·ing, wind·lass·es To raise with a windlass. [Middle English wyndlas, alteration of windas, from Old Norse vindāss : vinda, to wind + āss, pole.] |
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windlass
device for raising weights by winding a rope round a cylinder, c.1400, alteration of wyndase (1293), from Anglo-Fr. windas, and directly from a Scand. source such as O.N. vindass, from vinda "to wind" (see wind (v.)) + ass "pole, beam."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| windlass | |
noun | |
| lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds [syn: winch] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Windlass
Wind"as\, n. See 3d Windlass. [Obs.] --Chaucer.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Windlass
Wind"lace\, n. & v. See Windlass. [Obs.] Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. --Sir W. Scott.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Windlass
Wind"lass\, n.[Perhaps from wind to turn + lace.] A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Windlass
Wind"lass\, v. i. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means. [Obs.] --Hammond.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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