windlass

windlass is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive/intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
2. intransitive verb. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
3. noun. A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
4. noun. An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
5. transitive/intransitive verb. To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
6. noun. lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

   Synonyms: winch

Synonyms

winch

Common word forms

windlassed, windlasser, windlasses, windlassing

Words from these letters

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