[3] vindáss (m.) ‘windlass’: Lit. ‘winding-pole’, which was used to hoist the sail (cf. vinda segl ‘hoist sail’, CVC: vinda). ModEngl. windlass is a loanword from Old Norse (Falk 1912, 81). This term is not otherwise attested in verse.
References
- Bibliography
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.