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windlass
English
Alternative forms
- windless (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?nd.l?s/
Homophone: windless
Noun
windlass (plural windlasses)
- Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
- A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Ham II. i. 65:
- With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Ham II. i. 65:
- An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Translations
Verb
windlass (third-person singular simple present windlasses, present participle windlassing, simple past and past participle windlassed)
- To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
- 1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, "Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples", in The Century Magazine
- A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.
- 1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, "Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples", in The Century Magazine
- To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
- a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon
- He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.
- a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon
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laborer
English
Alternative forms
- labourer
Etymology
labor +? -er
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?le?.b?.?/
Noun
laborer (plural laborers)
- (American spelling) One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.
Related terms
- laborist
Translations
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lab?r?re, present active infinitive of lab?r?.
Verb
laborer
- to work; to labor
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. This verb has a stressed present stem labeur distinct from the unstressed stem labor. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Related terms
- labour
Descendants
- Middle French: labourer
- French: labourer
- Norman: labouother
- ? Middle English: labouren
- English: labour, labor
- Scots: laubour
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