windlace

English

Noun

windlace (plural windlaces)

  1. Obsolete form of windlass.
    • Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 28, footnote,
      The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for windlace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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