Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
windlass .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
windlass .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
windlass .
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Examples
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* The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine
Ivanhoe 1892
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33 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.
Ivanhoe 2004
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-- - Here be two arblasts, comrades, with windlaces and quarrells 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. -- - to the barbican with you, and see you drive each bolt through a Saxon brain. "
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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