windles
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See also: Windles
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See windle.
Noun[edit]
windles
Etymology 2[edit]
From slurred pronunciation of windlass.
Noun[edit]
windles
- A winch, a windlass.
- 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth, page 50:
- God's sake, speak her fair and canny, or we will have a raveled hasp on the yarn-windles!
- 1906, Samuel Purchas, edited by Hakluyt Society, Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others, number 30:
- his boate fitted with Sayle, Oares, thoughts, tholes danyd, windles and rother
Translations[edit]
windlass — see windlass
References[edit]
- Walter William Skeat (1884) An etymological dictionary of the English language.
- Henry Sweet (1888) A history of English sounds from the earliest period: with full word-lists