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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See windle.
Noun
windles
- plural of windle
Etymology 2
From slurred pronunciation of windlass.
Noun
windles
- 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
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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
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