Windlass is valid Scrabble Word

Is windlass a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for WINDLASS in dictionary:

VERB:

to raise with a hoist
haul or lift (something) with a windlass.
To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
raise or haul (a weight, etc) by means of a windlass

NOUN:

a winch, especially one on a ship or in a harbour.
winch worked by a crank
A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to raise with a windlass (a hoisting machine)

Words related to WINDLASS

windas10 windlassed15 windlasses14 windlassing16

Words that contain WINDLASS

windlassed15 windlasses14 windlassing16

How to use WINDLASS in a sentence

One night before the first week was out, he hauled alongside of me on the windlass.
Vanmater promised to erect a windlass over the pit and get him out before Mr.
He was describing an ordinary windlass hoist used at the shaft of a mine.
He bare a bow, which any but the hero must needs draw back with a windlass, and he would bend it.
Then the storm stayed for lack of rocks within reach, as it would seem, for I saw men hoisting more into the towers as fast as crane and windlass would serve them.
They were tightly wedged to their knees, between the windlass and the deck.
Perhaps the shack and the shaft-house on the claim, with the windlass and tools included by Briggs in the bill of sale, might fetch a few odd dollars.
I really think Hugh should have a windlass at the top and let people down by a rope.
Expectant silence fell, broken only by the vicious snarl of a flying windlass crank.
Windlass but when they got to the foot of the stairs to come up, they saw a large white goat standing at the top with blood flowing down his whiskers.

All hands manned the windlass and the safe was soon suspended between the bottom and the surface.
Coke pulled him up until he was lodged in safety in front of the windlass.
Watts was lying crouched on deck, with his arms thrown round the windlass.
The Russians had a neat log house built on a grassy slope, with a windlass well beside the door.
When he gained the deck of the Swan, the boat was hoisted in, and the men began to heave round the windlass.
The same method of grafting, the paraffin windlass method, was employed for these two trees which were neighbors.
It was partly covered by the shrunken half of a lid, above which a rusty windlass creaked in company with the music of the pines when the wind blew strongly.
He was the same person, who steered the brig Susan among the breakers, by which that vessel narrowly escaped destruction, with the loss of her windlass, and an anchor and cable.
Daylight had scarcely dawned, when the pall of the windlass broke.
The chain cable ran out so swiftly, that in half a minute the windlass was broken to atoms.
The end of the cable is attached to a drum or windlass and the plate glass held steady with guides at the sides of the slot in the stage floor, through which it passes.
The screw had been taken off, and all the force of the machines upon the windlass would soon have brought up the apparatus on board.
With the rope winding on its windlass the boat was slowly hauled through the surge, its occupants being drenched and sprinkled with salt water.
He went forward, and found that Hamish had secreted himself behind the windlass.

Similar words containing WINDLAS without suffix s

windlassed15 windlasses14 windlassing16

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