Windles
Origin 1
See windle
Pronunciation
Origin 2
From slurred pronunciation of windlass.
Full definition of windles
Noun
windles
- A winch, a windlass.
- 1821, w:Walter Scott, w, God's sake, speak her fair and canny, or we will have a raveled hasp on the yarn-windles!
- 1906, w:Samuel Purchas, 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