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windel-stán

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
windel-stán, es; m.
A tower with a winding staircase
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  • Windelstán coclea, gewind

    circuitus ascensus

    (the word occurs in a list of names of buildings),
      Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 3.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. wentil-stein cochlea, turris in qua per circuitum scanditur.]
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  • windel-stán, n.