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Rarewindlass
The correct spelling is windlass.
How to pronounce windlass
noun
IPA: /ˈwɪnd.ləs/
Say it like: Win-dla-ss
The correct spelling is windlass. Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
- 2.A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
- 3.An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
verb
- 1.To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
- 2.To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
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