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   Wind·lass

   /ˈwin(d)ləs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a type of winch used especially on ships to hoist anchors and haul on mooring lines and, especially formerly, to lower buckets into and hoist them up from wells.

   verb

   • 1. haul or lift (something) with a windlass.

   Word Origin late Middle English: probably an alteration of obsolete windas, via Anglo-Norman French from Old Norse vindáss, literally ‘winding pole’.

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