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† windas Obs.
Forms: 3–6 wyndas (3–5 -ase, 4 -az, 4–6 -ace, 5 -asse, 5–6 -es, 6 -esse, -ys, -ais), 4–7 windas, (6 -is, -ose, -eous, Sc. -ois, 6–7 -es, 7 -us, -owes); 5 weyndas, 6 wendess.
[a. AF. windas = OF. guindas (latinized wind-, guindasium, -agium), a. ON. vindáss (whence MLG., MDu., Du. windas), f. vinda wind v.1 + áss (= Goth. ans) pole.]
1. = windlass n.1 1.
[c1180in Materials Hist. Thos. Becket (Rolls) I. 300 Ligno quod nautæ windasium vocant caput rudentis circumposuere.] 1293Acc. Exch. K.R. 5/2 m. 2 (P.R.O.), Maeremium..pro Wyndase et Wyndase Stockez. 1295Ibid. 5/8 m. 13, xix. d. in quodam Wyndas empto..ad galeam. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12087 Somme aforced þe wyndas, Somme þe loof, somme þe bytas. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 103 Wiȝt at þe wyndas weȝen her ankres. c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 184 Ther may no man out of the place it dryue For noon engyn of wyndas ne polyue. c1440Partonope 4604 Goo hye yow fast to the wyndase [v.r. wyndace] And pull the Ankre vp in hast. 1515Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. V. 17 Making of crane and wyndais for fourtene pecis of artalȝery. 1578Harl. MS. 847, lf. 53 b, Windoses for the defence of ordinaunce. 1609in Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scot. (1878) 149 Helping to mak and sett the windes over the somp and drawing the watter out of it. 1609Churchw. Acc. Pittington, etc. (Surtees) 155 For bringinge the windowes and roopes from the Colledge. 1627Capt. J. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. 8 A windas is a square peece of timber, like a Role before the fore Castle in small ships, and forced about with handspikes for the same vse as is the Capstaine.
b. A winch-like contrivance used for bending a cross-bow.
1443Bekynton's Corr. (Rolls) II. 235 Ibi datus erat 1 arcus de Wyndas. 1449Paston Lett. I. 82, I..prey ȝw to gete som crosse bowis, and wyndacs to bynd them with. 1506Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 204 For..grathing of the Kingis corsbow and windes. 1511–12Ibid. IV. 327, vij pair wyndasis cordis. [1888Stevenson Black Arrow i. iv, Richard had unslung his cross-bow, and held ready in one hand the windac, or grappling-iron that he used to bend it.]
2. attrib., as windas cord [= OF. corde a guindas], windas man, windas rule; windas-stock, a windlass-bitt.
1504Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 466, iij pair *wyndes cordis for corsbowis.
1608in Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scot. (1878) 149 To cover the *windes men fra the injurie of the wedder. 1641Sc. Acts Chas. I. (1817) V. 509 Wattermen and windusmen.
15..Debate Carp. Tools 163 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 85 What, ser, seyd the *wyndas rewle, Me thinke thou arte bot a fole. 1293*Wyndase Stockez [see 1]. 1404Customs Acc. 180/1 (P.R.O.) 1 weyndas et weyndestok. |