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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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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] |
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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. |
Windlass
Wind"lass\, n. [OE. windelas, windas, Icel. vindil[=a]ss, vind[=a]s, fr. vinda to wind + [=a]ss a pole; cf. Goth. ans a beam. See Wind to turn.]1. A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam. 2. An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow. [Obs.] --Shak. Chinese windlass. See Differential windlass, under Differential.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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