windlace

English

Noun

windlace (plural windlaces)

1. Obsolete form of windlass.
   • 1819, Ivanhoe‎^[1], Walter Scott, Chapter 28, footnote:

     The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.

References

• “windlace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.