Middle English Dictionary Entry
windas n.
Entry Info
| Forms | windas n. Also windas(s)e, winddas, windace, windes(e, windeise, windehase, weindas, (in cpd.) weindes-; pl. windas, windaces. |
| Etymology | OF windas, AF windase, windeise, windés, vars. of OF guindas; cp. AL windasius, windasa & OI vind-āss. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. windlas n.
1.
(a) An apparatus for hoisting or hauling, a windlass, winch; ~ rolle, some part of a windlass, ?a pulley; ~ stok, a post for mounting a windlass, a windlass bitt; water ~, a windlass used to hoist water; yarn ~, a device for winding yarn;
(b) a winch used for bending a crossbow.
Associated quotations
a
- (1293) *Acc.Exch.K.R.5/2.m.2 [OD col.] : Maeremium…pro Wyndase et Wyndase Stockez.
- ?a1300 Gloss.Neckam (Tit D.20)115 : Troclea: windeyse.
- (1336) Doc.in Nicolas Navy 2472 : [Two] wyndas, [bought] ad aquam extra navem ponend.
- (1379) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.8199 : In potu dato diversis auxiliantibus ad le wyndas eadem die, 2 d.
- (1384) *For.Acc.(PRO) [OD col.] : j Waterwyndas, iiijor handropes.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.184 : Ther may no man out of the place it dryue For noon engyn of wyndas or polyue.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)103 : Cachen vp þe crossayl, cables þay fasten, Wiȝt at þe wyndas, weȝen her ankres.
- (1404) *Cust.Acc.(PRO) 180/1 [OD col.] () : Item, 1 weyndas et weyndestok.
- (1442) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 7114 : Andrew Daras for ye gret windas xi d.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)7555 : Goo hye yow fast to the wyndase [vrr. wynde-hase, wyndace] And pull the Ankre vp in hast.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)3/25 : Ȝe muste haue a wyndas, & a roop, & a bokett to drawyn vp watyr to drynke.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)140a : A Wyndes: troclea, Carchesium uel carchesia pluraliter.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)79/315a : Troclea: wyndasse.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)88/322a : Uirgillium, demollitorium: yere [read: yern] wyndese.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)805/21 : Troclia: a wynddas.
- c1500 The shype ax (Ashm 61)163 : ‘What, ser,’ seyd þe wyndas-rewle, ‘Me thynke þou arte bot a fole.’
b
- (1401) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.56 : [6 lb. of thread for crossbow strings and] wyndaces.
- (1443) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2235 : Ibi datus erat 1 arcus de Wyndas.
- (1448) Paston1.226 : I…prey ȝw to gete som crosse bowis, and wyndacis to bynd þem wyth.
- (1470) Paston1.553 : I haue thys day delyueryd…your crosbowys wyth telers and wyndas.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(2) in Archaeol.21270 : Item, iij grete Crosbowes of stele with one grete dowble wyndas ther too.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. windas.