Windabout

sb. and a. nonce-wd. [f. WIND v.¹ + ABOUT adv.] † a. sb. Suggested name for a circumflex accent. b. adj. That winds about, meandering.

1589.  Puttenham, Engl. Poesie, II. vi. (Arb.), 92. We might very properly call him the (windabout) for so is the Greek word [περισπώμενον].

1889.  Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 321. The erratic, windabout stream.