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windbills

windbills is the plural of windbill.

Meaning of windbill

Noun

windbill (plural windbills)

  1. (slang) A signed agreement to act as guarantor for another's debt.
    • He would have got a bank-credit, manoeuvred with windbills, dashed out upon a large scale, and soon have seen his crop and stock sequestered by the Sheriff'; but in those days a man could not ruin himself so easily.1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Pirate

Questions about windbills

What is windbills the plural of?
Windbills is the plural of windbill.

Words near windbills in the dictionary

  1. windbell
  2. windbells
  3. windberries
  4. windberry
  5. windbill
  6. windbills
  7. windbitten
  8. windblast
  9. windblasts
  10. windblocker
  11. windblockers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windbills (page history and authors); windbill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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