Windlass vs Windles - What's the difference?
windlass | windles |
Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
* 1599 , , Ham II. i. 65:
An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
A winch, a windlass.
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As nouns the difference between windlass and windles
is that windlass is any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights while windles is plural of lang=en.As a verb windlass
is to raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.windlass
English
(wikipedia windlass)Noun
(es)- With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
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Verb
- (The Century)
- (Hammond)
