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  1. windlass: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. windlass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. windlass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. windlass: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. windlass: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. Windlass, windlass: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. windlass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Windlass: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  9. windlass: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. windlass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. windlass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. windlass: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. windlass: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. windlass: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. Windlass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. Windlass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. windlass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. windlass: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. Windlass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. windlass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. windlass: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. windlass: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  23. windlass: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. windlass: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. windlass: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. windlass: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

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  1. windlass: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]

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  1. windlass: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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  1. windlass: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  2. Windlass: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

(Note: See windlassed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
noun:  A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
noun:  An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
verb:  To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
verb:  To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

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