windlassn.¹

Brit.

/ˈwɪndləs/, U.S.

/ˈwɪn(d)ləs/

Forms: Middle English wynlas(s)e, wyndelas, Middle English–1500s wyndlas, 1500s wyndlasse, wynlas, 1500s–1600s windlesse, windlasse, wyndles(se, (also 1800s) windlace, 1500s–1700s windlas, windles, 1600s wyndeles, 1600s–1700s windless, winlace, 1700s winlass, 1600s– windlass.

Etymology: Probably alteration of windas n., of obscure origin.The alleged Icelandic vindiláss is not authentic.

a. A mechanical contrivance working on the principle of the wheel and axle, on a horizontal axis (thus distinguished from a capstan); consisting of a roller or beam, resting on supports, round which a rope or chain is wound; used for various purposes, esp. on board ship for weighing the anchor or hauling upon a purchase, at the head of a mine-shaft for hoisting coal or other mineral, or for raising a bucket from a well. Chinese or differential windlass: see Chinese adj. and n. Compounds 3, and cf. differential adj. 2c Spanish windlass: see Spanish windlass n. at Spanish adj., n.¹, and adv. Compounds 7.

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

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass

windlassc1400

main-piece1850

dandy-wink1883

c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 12652 The schippes were sone on a blase, Thei brende bothe mast & wynlase.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 529 Wyndynge, wythe wyndelas [Winch. MS. wyndas], obvolucio.

1526 Dunmow Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) f. 5^v Item to John Harvy and Wylyem barcar for a brayde to helpe to make the wynlas, iii.d.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Tractorium, a windlas to draw vp heuy thingis.

1552 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 137 A wyndles for the pix.

1585 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 25 A grete roppe for the wyndlas in the slayhter housse.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 89 With a wyndeles turned by fowre men they drawe vpp the coales.

1608 Relation Trav. W. Bush B 2 b She had twooe stronge Cables..strayned by wyndlesses.

1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 342 Ane wyndles for heising vp of stanes.

1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 143 Carrying out an Anchor a sterne..with the Winlace.

1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 153 A great sea obliged us to cut the cable..at the windless.

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 218 Anchor-stocks..supplying the place of the upper gudgeon; and in a merchant~ship the clamps of her windles.

1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) x. 116 Some, seizing the ready handspikes, vault high upon the windlasses.

1822 Imison's Sci. & Art I. 56 If two men work at the end of a roller, or windlass, as in drawing up coals or ore from a mine, or water from a well.

1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 427 A great vessel of burthen..to cover the operations of a number of parties in boats, which..forced up the piles by means of cranes or windlaces.

†b. ⁋The form windles taken as plural. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. xv. 586 To force the water..with devise of engines and windles up to the top of the hill.

1680 London Gaz. No. 1526/4 The Adventure Pink,..two Decks, with a Fall where the Windles stand.

†2. Applied to various smaller contrivances of a similar kind: a winch used in discharging a crossbow (= windas n. b) or a pistol (‘dag’); a reel on an angler's rod, or for winding yarn (= windle n.³). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan > small

windlass1481

1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 273 ix. cross~bowes, wyndlas.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1099/2 With the windlace of his dag hanging thereon.

1588 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) (Chetham Soc.) 12 My crosbowe with the windlesse.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 258 A very long Line wound up at the handle of your Rod on a small Winch or Windlace.

1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. 236 (note) A Reel or Yarn-Windless.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 281 Two arblasts..with windlaces and quarrells.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

windlass axle n.

ΚΠ

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 157 Two windlass axles are supported on four props.

windlass-end n.

ΚΠ

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Windlass-ends..are two horizontal pieces forming a continuation of the windlass outside these bitts.

windlass-head n.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Windlass..is composed of the carrick-heads or windlass-heads.

windlass-pawl n.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Amidships it is supported by chocks, where it is also furnished with a course of windlass-pawls.

windlass rope n.

ΚΠ

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 81 By a Windless Rope, and weight to sink it, he may first let down the weight.

C2.

windlass-bar n. any of a set of bars inserted in holes in a ship's windlass, by which it is turned.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass > bar to turn

windlass-bar1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The cables [of the windlass] have three turns round this main-piece..: holes are cut for the windlass-bars in each eighth of the squared sides.

windlass-bitt n. each of the supports of a ship's windlass.

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

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Iron spindles working in collars or bushes inserted in the Windlass-bitts.

windlass-chock n. each of the supports of a ship's windlass.

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

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Windlass-chocks, fore-and-aft pieces of oak fitted on the deck and bolted to the beams immediately before the windlass.

windlass-jack n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > jacks

screw1404

scalet1640

German devil1670

Jack1679

screw jack1719

spring-jack1724

jackscrew?1735

crick1775

fence-jack1874

swing-jack1875

wagon-jack1875

windlass-jack1875

truck-jack1877

setter1895

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Windlass-jack, a form of lifting-jack having a winch-handle for turning the pinion which gears into the crown-wheel.

windlass-lining n. (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass > material to prevent chafing

windlass-lining1846

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Pieces of hard wood, called the Windlass~lining, fitted and bolted round it to preserve it from being chafed.

windlass-man n. a man employed to turn a windlass.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with winches or windlasses

winder1747

windlass-man1851

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. x. 278 Both shouted vehemently to the coadjutor at the windlass, both sprang at the basket; the windlass man could not move it with them both.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† windlassn.²

Forms: 1500s wynd(e)lesse, winlesse, windlas(se, ( -laies ?), wyndlas(s)e, -lace, 1500s–1600s windlace, windlesse, 1600s -lass, winde-lase, (1700s windlatch).

Etymology: Alteration of wanlace n., by association with wind v.¹ and perhaps with windlass n.¹

Obsolete.

1. A circuit made to intercept the game in hunting (= wanlace n. 1); gen. a circuit, circuitous movement: esp. in to fetch a windlass, to make a circuit, go round about, ‘fetch a compass’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > circuit to intercept

windlass1530

windlassinga1660

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > circuitous journey

windlass1530

meander1631

compass1698

roundabouta1734

circuit1785

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour

to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500

to fetch a windlass1530

to fetch about1551

to fetch, make, take a circuit1665

elbow1804

detour1836

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231 Hewar that fetteth the wyndelesse in huntyng.

1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vii. f. 206 Bidding them fetche a windlasse a great waye about, and to make al toward one place.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 93^v He runnes not forth directly out, Nor makes a windlasse ouer all the champion fieldes about.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 24^v I now fetching a windlesse, that I myght better haue a shoote, was preuented with ready game.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiv. xxxiv. 257 The beauies faire of Shepheards daughters bold, With wanton winde laies ronne, turne, play and pas.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 75 Sometimes a foote-man..will carry the same quite backwards, and so, at last, get to the goale by a windlace.

2. figurative. A circuitous course of action; a round-about proceeding; a crafty device (= wanlace n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > devious ways or dealings > instance of

windlassa1569

by-stroke1679

knight's move1958

a1569 A. Kingsmill Godly Aduise touching Mariage in Viewe Mans Estate (1574) I vij With suche winlesses some are dryuen into the net.

1575 W. Baldwin et al. Last Pt. Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Humphrey Dk. Gloucs. xlvi Which by slye driftes, and wyndlaces aloofe, They brought about.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 77 And heer iz my windless, lyke yoor coors az pleaz ye.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 64 With windlesses, and with assaies of bias, By indirections find directions out.

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 317 These were the trances, and the windlaces of the first Iesuites.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd iv. 54 What a wind-lace hast thou fetcht, with what words hast thou come upon me?

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §143. 307 The former are brought forth, by a Windlatch of a Trial, to charge the latter with the foulest of Crimes.

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† windlassv.¹

Etymology: < windlass n.²

Obsolete.

1. transitive (figurative) To decoy or ensnare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)]

shrenchc897

beswike971

betrapa1000

bewindOE

undernimc1175

undertakec1175

bisayc1200

beguile?c1225

catchc1225

beginc1250

biwilea1275

tele?a1300

enginec1300

lime13..

umwrithea1340

engrin1340

oblige1340

belimec1350

enlacec1374

girnc1375

encumber138.

gnarec1380

enwrap1382

briguea1387

snarl1387

upbroid1387

trap1390

entrikea1393

englue1393

gildera1400

aguilec1400

betraisec1400

embrygec1400

snare1401

lacea1425

maska1425

begluec1430

marl1440

supprise?c1450

to prey ona1500

attrap1524

circumvene1526

entangle1526

tangle1526

entrap1531

mesh1532

embrake1542

crawl1548

illaqueate1548

intricate1548

inveigle1551

circumvent1553

felter1567

besnare1571

in trick1572

ensnare1576

overcatch1577

underfong1579

salt1580

entoil1581

comprehend1584

windlassa1586

folda1592

solicit1592

toil1592

bait1600

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engage1603

benet1604

imbrier1605

ambush1611

inknot1611

enmesha1616

trammela1616

fool1620

pinion1621

aucupate1630

fang1637

surprise1642

underreacha1652

trepan1656

ensnarl1658

stalk1659

irretiate1660

coil1748

nail1766

net1803

to rope in1840

mousetrap1870

spider1891

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella xxi My young mind.., whom Loue doth windlas so; That mine owne writings..show My wits quicke in vaine thoughts, in vertue lame.

2. intransitive. To ‘fetch a windlass’, make a circuit; figurative to act circuitously or craftily.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > use devious means

wrigglea1646

windlassa1660

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) i. 12 She is not at so much leasure as to windlace, or use craft to satisfie them; she goes downright a woing.

Derivatives

windlassing n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > circuit to intercept

windlass1530

windlassinga1660

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) viii. 131 A skilful woods-man, that by wind-lassing presently gets a shoot.

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windlassv.²

Brit.

/ˈwɪndləs/, U.S.

/ˈwɪn(d)ləs/

Etymology: < windlass n.¹

transitive. To hoist or haul with a windlass.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > lifting or hoisting equipment

to wind upc1275

windc1440

sling1522

crane1570

hoise1573

pulley1581

tackle1711

lewis1837

teagle1841

to jack up1853

windlass1870

whorl1886

luff1913

1870 Daily News 20 Jan. He was hauled into the barn and windlassed clear of the floor.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 203 As though the words were being windlassed out of him.

Derivatives

ˈwindlassing n.²

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > lifting or hoisting equipment

windingc1440

slinging1685

windlassing1834

braking1857

level luffing1922

1834 M. Edgeworth Helen I. xiv. 307 None of our windlassing will ever bring her [sc. the truth] up.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹c1400

n.²1530

v.¹a1586

v.²1834

单词	windlass
释义	windlassn.¹ Brit. /ˈwɪndləs/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(d)ləs/ Forms: Middle English wynlas(s)e, wyndelas, Middle English–1500s wyndlas, 1500s wyndlasse, wynlas, 1500s–1600s windlesse, windlasse, wyndles(se, (also 1800s) windlace, 1500s–1700s windlas, windles, 1600s wyndeles, 1600s–1700s windless, winlace, 1700s winlass, 1600s– windlass. Etymology: Probably alteration of windas n., of obscure origin.The alleged Icelandic vindiláss is not authentic. 1. a. A mechanical contrivance working on the principle of the wheel and axle, on a horizontal axis (thus distinguished from a capstan); consisting of a roller or beam, resting on supports, round which a rope or chain is wound; used for various purposes, esp. on board ship for weighing the anchor or hauling upon a purchase, at the head of a mine-shaft for hoisting coal or other mineral, or for raising a bucket from a well. Chinese or differential windlass: see Chinese adj. and n. Compounds 3, and cf. differential adj. 2c Spanish windlass: see Spanish windlass n. at Spanish adj., n.¹, and adv. Compounds 7. 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 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass windlassc1400 main-piece1850 dandy-wink1883 c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 12652 The schippes were sone on a blase, Thei brende bothe mast & wynlase. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 529 Wyndynge, wythe wyndelas [Winch. MS. wyndas], obvolucio. 1526 Dunmow Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) f. 5^v Item to John Harvy and Wylyem barcar for a brayde to helpe to make the wynlas, iii.d. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Tractorium, a windlas to draw vp heuy thingis. 1552 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 137 A wyndles for the pix. 1585 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 25 A grete roppe for the wyndlas in the slayhter housse. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 89 With a wyndeles turned by fowre men they drawe vpp the coales. 1608 Relation Trav. W. Bush B 2 b She had twooe stronge Cables..strayned by wyndlesses. 1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 342 Ane wyndles for heising vp of stanes. 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 143 Carrying out an Anchor a sterne..with the Winlace. 1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 153 A great sea obliged us to cut the cable..at the windless. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 218 Anchor-stocks..supplying the place of the upper gudgeon; and in a merchant~ship the clamps of her windles. 1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) x. 116 Some, seizing the ready handspikes, vault high upon the windlasses. 1822 Imison's Sci. & Art I. 56 If two men work at the end of a roller, or windlass, as in drawing up coals or ore from a mine, or water from a well. 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 427 A great vessel of burthen..to cover the operations of a number of parties in boats, which..forced up the piles by means of cranes or windlaces. †b. ⁋The form windles taken as plural. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. xv. 586 To force the water..with devise of engines and windles up to the top of the hill. 1680 London Gaz. No. 1526/4 The Adventure Pink,..two Decks, with a Fall where the Windles stand. †2. Applied to various smaller contrivances of a similar kind: a winch used in discharging a crossbow (= windas n. b) or a pistol (‘dag’); a reel on an angler's rod, or for winding yarn (= windle n.³). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan > small windlass1481 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 273 ix. cross~bowes, wyndlas. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1099/2 With the windlace of his dag hanging thereon. 1588 in Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) (Chetham Soc.) 12 My crosbowe with the windlesse. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 258 A very long Line wound up at the handle of your Rod on a small Winch or Windlace. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. 236 (note) A Reel or Yarn-Windless. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 281 Two arblasts..with windlaces and quarrells. Compounds C1. General attributive. windlass axle n. ΚΠ 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 157 Two windlass axles are supported on four props. windlass-end n. ΚΠ 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Windlass-ends..are two horizontal pieces forming a continuation of the windlass outside these bitts. windlass-head n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Windlass..is composed of the carrick-heads or windlass-heads. windlass-pawl n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) Amidships it is supported by chocks, where it is also furnished with a course of windlass-pawls. windlass rope n. ΚΠ 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 81 By a Windless Rope, and weight to sink it, he may first let down the weight. C2. windlass-bar n. any of a set of bars inserted in holes in a ship's windlass, by which it is turned. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass > bar to turn windlass-bar1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) The cables [of the windlass] have three turns round this main-piece..: holes are cut for the windlass-bars in each eighth of the squared sides. windlass-bitt n. each of the supports of a ship's windlass. 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 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Iron spindles working in collars or bushes inserted in the Windlass-bitts. windlass-chock n. each of the supports of a ship's windlass. 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 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Windlass-chocks, fore-and-aft pieces of oak fitted on the deck and bolted to the beams immediately before the windlass. windlass-jack n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > jacks screw1404 scalet1640 German devil1670 Jack1679 screw jack1719 spring-jack1724 jackscrew?1735 crick1775 fence-jack1874 swing-jack1875 wagon-jack1875 windlass-jack1875 truck-jack1877 setter1895 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Windlass-jack, a form of lifting-jack having a winch-handle for turning the pinion which gears into the crown-wheel. windlass-lining n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > windlass > material to prevent chafing windlass-lining1846 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 369 Pieces of hard wood, called the Windlass~lining, fitted and bolted round it to preserve it from being chafed. windlass-man n. a man employed to turn a windlass. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with winches or windlasses winder1747 windlass-man1851 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. x. 278 Both shouted vehemently to the coadjutor at the windlass, both sprang at the basket; the windlass man could not move it with them both. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † windlassn.² Forms: 1500s wynd(e)lesse, winlesse, windlas(se, ( -laies ?), wyndlas(s)e, -lace, 1500s–1600s windlace, windlesse, 1600s -lass, winde-lase, (1700s windlatch). Etymology: Alteration of wanlace n., by association with wind v.¹ and perhaps with windlass n.¹ Obsolete. 1. A circuit made to intercept the game in hunting (= wanlace n. 1); gen. a circuit, circuitous movement: esp. in to fetch a windlass, to make a circuit, go round about, ‘fetch a compass’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > circuit to intercept windlass1530 windlassinga1660 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > circuitous journey windlass1530 meander1631 compass1698 roundabouta1734 circuit1785 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 to fetch a windlass1530 to fetch about1551 to fetch, make, take a circuit1665 elbow1804 detour1836 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231 Hewar that fetteth the wyndelesse in huntyng. 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vii. f. 206 Bidding them fetche a windlasse a great waye about, and to make al toward one place. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 93^v He runnes not forth directly out, Nor makes a windlasse ouer all the champion fieldes about. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 24^v I now fetching a windlesse, that I myght better haue a shoote, was preuented with ready game. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiv. xxxiv. 257 The beauies faire of Shepheards daughters bold, With wanton winde laies ronne, turne, play and pas. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 75 Sometimes a foote-man..will carry the same quite backwards, and so, at last, get to the goale by a windlace. 2. figurative. A circuitous course of action; a round-about proceeding; a crafty device (= wanlace n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > devious ways or dealings > instance of windlassa1569 by-stroke1679 knight's move1958 a1569 A. Kingsmill Godly Aduise touching Mariage in Viewe Mans Estate (1574) I vij With suche winlesses some are dryuen into the net. 1575 W. Baldwin et al. Last Pt. Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Humphrey Dk. Gloucs. xlvi Which by slye driftes, and wyndlaces aloofe, They brought about. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 77 And heer iz my windless, lyke yoor coors az pleaz ye. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 64 With windlesses, and with assaies of bias, By indirections find directions out. View more context for this quotation 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 317 These were the trances, and the windlaces of the first Iesuites. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd iv. 54 What a wind-lace hast thou fetcht, with what words hast thou come upon me? a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §143. 307 The former are brought forth, by a Windlatch of a Trial, to charge the latter with the foulest of Crimes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † windlassv.¹ Etymology: < windlass n.² Obsolete. 1. transitive (figurative) To decoy or ensnare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] shrenchc897 beswike971 betrapa1000 bewindOE undernimc1175 undertakec1175 bisayc1200 beguile?c1225 catchc1225 beginc1250 biwilea1275 tele?a1300 enginec1300 lime13.. umwrithea1340 engrin1340 oblige1340 belimec1350 enlacec1374 girnc1375 encumber138. gnarec1380 enwrap1382 briguea1387 snarl1387 upbroid1387 trap1390 entrikea1393 englue1393 gildera1400 aguilec1400 betraisec1400 embrygec1400 snare1401 lacea1425 maska1425 begluec1430 marl1440 supprise?c1450 to prey ona1500 attrap1524 circumvene1526 entangle1526 tangle1526 entrap1531 mesh1532 embrake1542 crawl1548 illaqueate1548 intricate1548 inveigle1551 circumvent1553 felter1567 besnare1571 in trick1572 ensnare1576 overcatch1577 underfong1579 salt1580 entoil1581 comprehend1584 windlassa1586 folda1592 solicit1592 toil1592 bait1600 beset1600 engage1603 benet1604 imbrier1605 ambush1611 inknot1611 enmesha1616 trammela1616 fool1620 pinion1621 aucupate1630 fang1637 surprise1642 underreacha1652 trepan1656 ensnarl1658 stalk1659 irretiate1660 coil1748 nail1766 net1803 to rope in1840 mousetrap1870 spider1891 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella xxi My young mind.., whom Loue doth windlas so; That mine owne writings..show My wits quicke in vaine thoughts, in vertue lame. 2. intransitive. To ‘fetch a windlass’, make a circuit; figurative to act circuitously or craftily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > be cunning or act cunningly [verb (intransitive)] > use devious means wrigglea1646 windlassa1660 a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) i. 12 She is not at so much leasure as to windlace, or use craft to satisfie them; she goes downright a woing. Derivatives windlassing n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > circuit to intercept windlass1530 windlassinga1660 a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) viii. 131 A skilful woods-man, that by wind-lassing presently gets a shoot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021). windlassv.² Brit. /ˈwɪndləs/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(d)ləs/ Etymology: < windlass n.¹ transitive. To hoist or haul with a windlass. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > lifting or hoisting equipment to wind upc1275 windc1440 sling1522 crane1570 hoise1573 pulley1581 tackle1711 lewis1837 teagle1841 to jack up1853 windlass1870 whorl1886 luff1913 1870 Daily News 20 Jan. He was hauled into the barn and windlassed clear of the floor. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix. 203 As though the words were being windlassed out of him. Derivatives ˈwindlassing n.² ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > lifting or hoisting equipment windingc1440 slinging1685 windlassing1834 braking1857 level luffing1922 1834 M. Edgeworth Helen I. xiv. 307 None of our windlassing will ever bring her [sc. the truth] up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c1400n.²1530v.¹a1586v.²1834
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