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Windlass :: Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow..

Afer :: Afer (n.) The southwest wind.

Wild :: Wild (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead..

Strewed :: Stretto (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time..

Crepitus :: Crepitus (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

Water Flounder :: Water flounder () The windowpane (Pleuronectes maculatus).

Weatherbit :: Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass..

Governing :: Governing (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state..

Equinox :: Equinox (n.) Equinoctial wind or storm.

Afore :: Afore (prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction..

Choke :: Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation..

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes..

High :: High (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions..

Carrol :: Carrol (n.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century..

Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm..

Blustering :: Blustering (a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous..

Samiel :: Samiel (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

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