Sc. and north. dial. Also 6 wyn, 7 wind, 3 winn, (9 won). Pa. pple. 8 winned, Sc. win(n), 6, 9 won, 8 wun. [? WIN v.1 with specialized development from sense 7 f, but associated also with WIND v.2 2.] trans. To dry (hay, seed, turf, wood, etc.) by exposure to the air, or to the heat of the sun or a fire. Also intr. for pass.
1557. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 271/2. Tertiam partem 21 dietarum feni lie won hay.
1588. Exch. Rolls Scot., XXI. 412. For making of 36 dawarkis of hay … and for wynning and putting of the samyn in tramp ruckis.
1641. Peebles Burgh Charters (1872), 107. To cast and wind peites, turres, fewall [etc.].
1733. P. Lindsay, Interest Scot., 154. So much of his Lint as he intends for his best Seed, he builds up in a Stack like Corn, after it is thoroughly win.
1765. Museum Rust., IV. cvi. 455. Scots seed, when well winned and kept.
1794. Statist. Acc. Scot., XI. 268. Cutting, winning, and carrying home their peats, however, consumes a great deal of time.
1812. Sir J. Sinclair, Syst. Husb. Scot., I. 396. The sun and air gradually win it [sc. hay].
1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 259. Feathers may be hung up in bags against the wall behind the fire, and there they will soon win. Ibid., III. 909. [The skin for rennet] is then hung stretched over a stick near the fire to dry and won. Ibid., 978. By the afternoon the hay is so dry and won as to be fit to be stacked.
1884. Whitby Gaz., 9 Aug., 1/2. A Stack of well won Hay.
