单词 | windas |
释义 | † windasn. Obsolete. a. = windlass n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan windas1293 wind1399 windlassc1400 fern1546 stow?1549 capstock1551 winch1577 draw-beam1585 wind-beam1585 winder1585 capstring1609 crab1627 guindall1628 gin1632 Jack1686 screw engine1688 twirl1688 moulineta1706 jack roll1708 wind-lifta1734 whim1738 stowce1747 whim-engine1759 macaroni gin1789 whimsy1789 winze1839 jack roller1843 wink1847 winding engine1858 fusee-windlass1874 come-along1891 c1180 in Materials Hist. Thos. Becket (Rolls) I. 300 Ligno quod nautæ windasium vocant caput rudentis circumposuere.] 1293 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/2) m. 2 Maeremium..pro Wyndase et Wyndase Stockez. 1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/8 m. 13 xix. d. in quodam Wyndas empto..ad galeam. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 12087 Somme aforced þe wyndas, Somme þe loof, somme þe bytas. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 103 Wiȝt at þe wyndas weȝen her ankres. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 176 Ther may no man out of the place it dryue For noon engyn of wyndas ne polyue. c1440 Partonope 4604 Goo hye yow fast to the wyndase [v.r. wyndace] And pull the Ankre vp in hast. 1515 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 17 Making of crane and wyndais for fourtene pecis of artalȝery. 1578 Harl. MS. 847 lf. 53 b Windoses for the defence of ordinaunce. 1609 in 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. 1609 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 155 For bringinge the windowes and roopes from the Colledge. 1627 J. Smith Sea 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 crossbow. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > device for bending crossbow brakec1380 vicea1400 windas1443 tyllole1489 gaffle1497 rack1513 goat's footc1515 bending1530 crick1530 bender1684 garrot1824 moulinet1846 1443 Bekynton's Corr. (Rolls) II. 235 Ibi datus erat 1 arcus de Wyndas. 1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 226 I..prey ȝw to gete som crosse bowis, and wyndacis to bynd þem wyth. 1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 204 For..grathing of the Kingis corsbow and windes. 1511–12 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 327 vij pair wyndasis cordis. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. iv. 61 Richard had unslung his cross-bow, and held ready in one hand the windac, or grappling-iron that he used to bend it.] Compounds C1. General attributive. windas cord n. [= Old French corde a guindas] ΚΠ 1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 466 iij pair wyndes cordis for corsbowis. windas man n. ΚΠ 1608 in Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scot. (1878) 149 To cover the windes men fra the injurie of the wedder. 1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I. (1817) V. 509 Wattermen and windusmen. windas rule n. ΚΠ c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 459 'What, ser,' seyd þe wyndas-rewle, Me thynke þou arte bot a fole'. C2. windas-stock n. a windlass-bitt. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass > support for windas-stock1293 windlass-bitt1846 windlass-chock1846 range-head1867 1293 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/2) m. 2 Maeremium..pro Wyndase et Wyndase Stockez. 1404 Customs Acc. 180/1 (P.R.O.) 1 weyndas et weyndestok. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1293 |
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