Meanings
plural windacs
- 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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