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[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]windac (plural windacs)
- (archaic) A grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.
- 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:
- Matcham had picked up the windac and went first, Dick following stiffly, with his cross-bow on his arm.