windas
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
windas
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch windas, ultimately from Old Norse.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
windas f (plural windassen, diminutive windasje n)
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
windas
- windlass
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 183-185:
- Ther may no man out of the place it dryve
For noon engyn of windas or polyve;
And cause why, for they can nat the craft.- No man there can drive it out of the place
Despite any contrivance of windlass or pulley;
And the reason why? Because they do not know the craft.
- No man there can drive it out of the place
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 183-185:
References[edit]
- “windas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Norse [Term?].
Noun[edit]
windas oblique singular, m (oblique plural windas, nominative singular windas, nominative plural windas)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: windlass
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (guindas)
- gindas on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (also listed under vindass)
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