WINDLASS
\wˈɪndlas], \wˈɪndlas], \w_ˈɪ_n_d_l_a_s]\
Definitions of WINDLASS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
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To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
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An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
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To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
By Oddity Software
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A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
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To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
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An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
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To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
By Noah Webster.
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A machine consisting of a horizontal cylinder, or roller, moving on its axis, and used for hoisting weights, by means of a crank which winds up a rope to which the load is fastened.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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