Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to windlass
Participle: windlassed
Gerund: windlassing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | windlass |
| you | windlass |
| he;she;it | windlasses |
| we | windlass |
| you | windlass |
| they | windlass |
Perfect
| I | have windlassed |
| you | have windlassed |
| he;she;it | has windlassed |
| we | have windlassed |
| you | have windlassed |
| they | have windlassed |
Past
| I | windlassed |
| you | windlassed |
| he;she;it | windlassed |
| we | windlassed |
| you | windlassed |
| they | windlassed |
Pluperfect
| I | had windlassed |
| you | had windlassed |
| he;she;it | had windlassed |
| we | had windlassed |
| you | had windlassed |
| they | had windlassed |
Future
| I | will windlass |
| you | will windlass |
| he;she;it | will windlass |
| we | will windlass |
| you | will windlass |
| they | will windlass |
Future Perfect
| I | will have windlassed |
| you | will have windlassed |
| he;she;it | will have windlassed |
| we | will have windlassed |
| you | will have windlassed |
| they | will have windlassed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | windlass |
| you | windlass |
| he;she;it | windlass |
| we | windlass |
| you | windlass |
| they | windlass |
Perfect
| I | have windlassed |
| you | have windlassed |
| he;she;it | have windlassed |
| we | have windlassed |
| you | have windlassed |
| they | have windlassed |
Imperfect
| I | windlassed |
| you | windlassed |
| he;she;it | windlassed |
| we | windlassed |
| you | windlassed |
| they | windlassed |
Pluperfect
| I | had windlassed |
| you | had windlassed |
| he;she;it | had windlassed |
| we | had windlassed |
| you | had windlassed |
| they | had windlassed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would windlass |
| you | would windlass |
| he;she;it | would windlass |
| we | would windlass |
| you | would windlass |
| they | would windlass |
Perfect
| I | would have windlassed |
| you | would have windlassed |
| he;she;it | would have windlassed |
| we | would have windlassed |
| you | would have windlassed |
| they | would have windlassed |
Imperative
| you | windlass |
| we | Let's windlass |
| you | windlass |
Verbs conjugated like 'windlass'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'windlass'
handpass,
inclasp,
misclass,
windle,
wireless,
airdash,
canvass,
class,
cutlass,
dass,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. device for raising weights by winding a rope round a cylinder, c.1400, alteration of wyndase (1293), from Anglo-Fr. windas, and directly from a Scand. source such as O.N. vindass, from vinda "to wind" (see wind (v.)) + ass "pole, beam."
2. From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.
Sample Sentences
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A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals. [1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, “Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples”, in The Century Magazine:]
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He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained. [a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:]