windlace

English

Noun

windlace (plural windlaces)

Obsolete form of windlass.
- 1819, Ivanhoe‎, Walter Scott, 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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