wynd
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wynd
1375–1425; late Middle English ( Scots ) wynde, Old English gewind winding path. See wind 2
Example Sentences
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And Tor- wynd ... it was the cold claimed him.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The night that Tor- wynd ... my boy, he ...”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
For, as we came by the side port of Holyroodhouse, and took the left wynd which leads to the kirkyard, it seemed that I heard the sound of footsteps coming after me.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Ful many a deynté hors hadde he in stable: And whan he rood, men mighte his bridel heere Gynglen in a whistlyng wynd as cleere, And eek as lowde as doth the chapel belle.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
This same yere upon seynt Maurys day, the yere of our lord a mlccclxj, was the gret wynd whiche caste doun tres, houses, pynacles and steplees of chirches and manye places in Engelond.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
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