the stem of WIND v.1 in combination, in a few obsolete compounds: † wind-clout (in Ormin winndeclut), a swaddling-band; † wind-hatch [HATCH sb.1 5 b], an opening to a mine, at which a winding apparatus is fixed; † wind-lift, a windlass (in quot. fig.); † wind-rope, a rope for winding or hoisting, used with a windlass.
c. 1200. Ormin, 3320. & tær ȝho barr Allmahhtiȝ Godd … & wand himm sone i *winndeclut.
1671. Phil. Trans., VI. 2104. A Winder with two Keebles (great buckets made like a barrel with iron hoops, placed just over the then termed *Wind Hatch).
a. 1734. North, Exam., II. v. § 64 (1740), 354. The Author intends no Good in all this, but brings it in as a *Wind-lift to heave up a gross Scandal.
1359. in Pipe Roll 38 Edw. III., m. 47 (P. R. O.). In diuersis Cabulis, *Wyndropes, Caggyngcables.
1402. Acc. Exch. K. R., 43/6 m. 7. In ij hausers emptis pro j Wyndrope et j boltrope lix s. vj. d.
