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windore

English

Etymology

A corruption of window, or perhaps coined on the wrong assumption that window is from wind + door.

Noun

windore (plural windores)

  1. Obsolete form of window.
    • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2
      Not as the ancient heroes did, / Who, that their base births might be hid, / Knowing they were of doubtful gender, / And that they came in at a windore, / Made Jupiter himself, and others / O' th' gods, gallants to their own mothers

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  • downier

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windbore

English

Etymology

wind +? bore

Noun

windbore (plural windbores)

  1. The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
    • 1864, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences (volume 20, page 101)
      A large stone, 18 inches thick, is bedded at the bottom of the shaft, for the windbore of the bucket pump to rest upon. The remainder of the shaft bottom is filled in with hard burnt bricks and Barrow lime, forming a level bottom []

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  • bondwire

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