Noun: guindastre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | guindastre |
| Plural m | guindastres |
Sample Sentences
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destes por duas palmelas et dous golfoos et cravos para o gindastes dose moravedis (you gave for two hinges and for nails for the windlass 12 coins) [1418, Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Libro do Concello de Santiago:]
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o caldeiro é grande e negro, e colga dun guindastre (unha viga que xirando pon o caldeiro sobor do lume) (the cauldron is large and black, and it hangs from a windlass (a pole which, upon winding, can set the cauldron over the fire)) [1973, Xosé Gayoso, Coa nosa xente [With our people], Vigo: Galaxia:]
Nouns inflected like guindastre
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in the 15th century. Probably from Old Northern French, from Old Norse vinda (“to wind”) + ass (“pole”), from Proto-Germanic *windaną (“to wind”) + *astaz (“branch”). Cognate with Icelandic vindilass and English windlass. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vinda', English Nouns '
windlass'.
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