windlass

Etymology
From, , , , probably an alteration (due to 🇨🇬) of 🇨🇬, , , from , and  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ), from , from  +. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
 * 2) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
 * 3) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
 * 1) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

Translations

 * Belarusian: бра́шпіль, лябёдка
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, , bozzello, salpareti
 * Latin: sucula, tormentum
 * Macedonian: ди́галка
 * Maori: huritaura
 * Norman: vitheveau
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوجرغات
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: sidreno vitlo
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: biling-bilingan
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,

Verb

 * 1) To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
 * 2) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
 * 1) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.