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▪ I. wind-1
the stem of wind v.1 in combination, in a few obsolete compounds: † wind-clout (in Ormin winndeclut), a swaddling-band; † wind-hatch [hatch n.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.
c1200Ormin 3320 & tær ȝho barr Allmahhtiȝ Godd..& wand himm sone i *winndeclut.
1671Phil. 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).
a1734North 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.
1359in Pipe Roll 38 Edw. III m. 47 (P.R.O.) In diuersis Cabulis, *Wyndropes, Caggyngcables. 1402Acc. Exch. K.R. 43/6 m. 7 In ij hausers emptis pro j Wyndrope et j boltrope lix s. vj. d.
▪ II. wind-2
the stem of wind v.3 in combination = winnowing-, as in wind-cloth, wind-screen, wind-sheet.
1500Ortus Vocab. (W. de W.) PP vj, Ventilabrum,..a wynde clothe. 1565Inv. in Trans. Cumb. & West. Arch. Soc. X. 32 Husbandre gere{ddd}vii steckes, one wyndcloythe. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. III. 125 After passing twice through the wind screen, that objection was entirely removed. 1891Hartland Gloss., Win-shet, a winnowing-sheet. |