English

Noun

windles

1. plural of windle

Etymology 2

From slurred pronunciation of windlass.

Noun

windles

1. 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, Hakluyt Society, editor, Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others:

     his boate fitted with Sayle, Oares, thoughts, tholes danyd, windles and rother

Translations

References

• 1884, Walter William Skeat, An etymological dictionary of the English language.^{-windle -inauthor%3Awindle -windoes -windes -winds&f=false}:
• 1888, Henry Sweet, A history of English sounds from the earliest period: with full word-lists:

Anagrams

• swindle