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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

See 3d

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

windas ‎(plural windases)

Obsolete form of windlass.
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Borrowing from Old Norse [Term?].

windas m ‎(oblique plural windas, nominative singular windas, nominative plural windas)

(fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guindas)