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windac

windac noun: a grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.

Noun

windac (plural windacs)

  1. (archaic) A 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

Forms of windac

pluralwindacs

Questions about windac

What does windac mean?
Windac means a grappling iron used to bend a crossbow.
What part of speech is windac?
Windac is a noun.
What is the plural of windac?
The plural of windac is windacs.

Words near windac in the dictionary

  1. wind-ups
  2. wind-witch
  3. wind-witches
  4. winda
  5. windable
  6. windac
  7. windacs
  8. windage
  9. windages
  10. windago
  11. windagoes

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