filoir

French, noun/fi.lwaʁ/

filoir is a French masculine noun meaning “fairlead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Machine à filer”.

What does filoir mean in English?

noun

1
masculinefairlead

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Machine à filer. 2. Pièce d’accastillage de bateau utilisée pour guider un filin.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of filoir

filoirs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce filoir?

/fi.lwaʁ/
\fi.lwaʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to filoir

fairlead

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.