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wintle, v. Sc.|ˈwɪnt(ə)l|
Also 9 wuntle.
[a. early Flem. windtelen, wend(t)elen ‘voluere, volutare’ (Kilian), f. winden wind v.1]
1. intr. To roll or swing from side to side.
1786Burns To Auld Mare vii, Tho' now ye dow but hoyte and hoble, An' wintle like a saumont-coble. 1790― Verses to J. Rankine 8 From him that wears the star and garter, To him that wintles in a halter. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 173 And wi' his prickin' gude pyk-staff Made them rebound and wintle aff.
2. To tumble, capsize, be upset.
1867J. K. Hunter Retrosp. Artist's Life xxx. (1912) 315, I..wintled over beyond him in the bed. 1890Service Thir Notandums v. 28 At the whilk observe of mine, I thocht that his Lordship would have wuntled aff his cheyre.
Hence ˈwintle n., a rolling or staggering movement.
1785Burns Halloween xix, He by his shouther gae a keek, An' tumbl'd wi' a wintle. 1882J. Walker Sc. Poems 127 With rocking wintle near the shipping quay The Granton steamboat at our service lay. |