windles

See also: Windles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndəlz/

Etymology 1

See windle.

Noun

windles

1. plural of windle

Etymology 2

From slurred pronunciation of windlass.

Noun

windles

1. 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

windlass — see windlass

References

• 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

Anagrams

• Swindle, swindle, wildens