windlass

Meaning of windlass

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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Hyphenation of windlass

wind-lass

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • windlass is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

windlass synonyms

Meaning winch:

winch

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