different between windlass vs ankkuri

English

Alternative forms

• windless (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nd.l?s/

Homophone: windless

Noun

windlass (plural windlasses)

1. Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
2. A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Ham II. i. 65:

     With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.

3. An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

Translations

Verb

windlass (third-person singular simple present windlasses, present participle windlassing, simple past and past participle windlassed)

1. To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
   • 1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, "Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples", in The Century Magazine

     A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.

2. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
   • a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon

     He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ankkuri, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *ankurô (“anchor”). Cognate with Estonian ankur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?uri/, [???k?uri]
• Rhymes: -??k?uri
• Syllabification: ank?ku?ri

Noun

ankkuri

1. anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)
2. (figuratively) anchor (something that serves to provide a fixing point)
3. (television) anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman
4. anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (final runner in relay race)
5. (electronics) armature (in an electromagnetic apparatus)
6. (historical) an obsolete Finnish unit of measurement for volume of liquid substances, equal to around 39 litres

Declension

Derived terms

• ankkuroida
• ankkuroitua

Compounds

Anagrams

• kankuri, kirkuna, kurikan, kurkina, nurkkia