windlace

English

Noun

windlace (plural windlaces)

  1. Obsolete form of windlass.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 28, footnote,
      The arblast was a cross-bow, the windlace the machine used in bending that weapon, and the quarrell, so called from its square or diamond-shaped head, was the bolt adapted to it.

References
  • windlace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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