windac

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noun

A grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounwindac (plural windacs)

plural windacs

  1. archaicA grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.

    Matcham had picked up the windac and went first, Dick following stiffly, with his cross-bow on his arm.

    1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bloody as the Hunter”, in The Black Arrow
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “windac,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/windac.

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