1. A machine for raising weights, an application of the wheel and axle, in which a rope or chain, with the weight attached, is wound about a cylinder or roller moved by a crank, shifting levers, or similar means; a handle by which anything is turned.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• windowss,
• wandless,
• winnless,
• windaless,
• winlass,
• wendless,
• qindlass,
• aindlass,
• sindlass,
• eindlass,
• 3indlass,
• 2indlass,
• wundlass,
• wjndlass,
• wkndlass,
• windlas,
• windless,
• windles,
• windluss,
• windflas

• windless,
• windily,
• windley,
• Windle.

The adjective form of the word "windlass" is "windlassed".

The plural of the "windlass" can be the "windlasses".

The singular of the "windlass" can be the "windlass".