[Partly a. MDu., MLG. winde windlass, convolvulus, etc. = OHG. wintâ (MHG., G. winde), ON. vinda hank of yarn (Sw. vinda bindweed, Da. vinde pulley, windlass, from LG.); cf. OE. ʓewind spiral, tendril, winding path, -winde in ʓearnwinde reel, wiþowinde bindweed, ON. vindr winding: f. windan WIND v.1 Partly a direct formation on the vb.]

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  1.  An apparatus for winding (see WIND v.1 19), a winch or windlass. Obs. exc. dial.

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1399.  Acc. Exch. K. R., 473/11 m. 2 dorso (P.R.O.). Reddit compotum de vna Machina vocata Wynde [etc.].

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1538–9.  in Archaeologia (1871), XLIII. 211. j olde wynde for stone.

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1568.  in Coventry Corpus Chr. Pl., App. II. 101. Payd for a cord for the wynde ij s. vj d.

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1651.  T. Barker, Art of Angling (1653), 9. Within two foot of the bottom of the Rod there was a hole made, for to put in a winde, to turne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and loose at his pleasure.

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1790.  W. H. Marshall, Rural Econ. Midl. Co. (1796), II. Gloss. (E.D.S.). Wind..., a winch, or wince.

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1851.  Sternberg, Dial. Northampt., Wynd, a winch.

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1883.  Gresley, Gloss. Coal-mining, Wind. 1. A hand-windlass or jack-roll…. 4. A steam-engine used purposely for lowering and raising men in an engine pit or pumping-shaft.

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  † 2.  A twining plant, e.g., convolvulus. Obs.

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1538.  Turner, Libellus, Conuoluulus, dioscoridæ clematis, altera, est aliquibus liliastrum, anglis autem, The comon bynde, aut The lytell wynde. Ibid. (1562), Herbal, II. 141. Of the smooth Smilax or great arbor wynde. Ibid. I neuer sawe anye kinde of wynde, or wyth winde, or arbor winde, haue anye suche cod.

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1576.  Lobel, Plant. Hist., 340.

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  3.  An act or instance of winding; curved or twisted form; techn. bend or twist (cf. WIND v.1 5 b), esp. in phr. out of wind, not twisted.

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1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 586. If the two edges and his eye be not in one plane, the upper parts are planed down until the piece is said to be out of wind.

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1859.  Capern, Ball. & Songs, 137. The vermeil-beaded bryony, In many a graceful wind.

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1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Twist..., the wind of the bed-joint of each course of voussoirs in a skew arch.

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1883.  Hampshire Gloss., s.v. Wynd, On the wynd = warped or twisted. Applied to boards or planks.

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1896.  Archaeol. Jrnl., LIII. 52. There is never any trace of wind on them [sc. Danish knife-blades], although occasionally they may not lie quite fat.

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