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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The night that Tor- wynd ... my boy, he ...”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
And Tor- wynd ... it was the cold claimed him.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Then I discovered to my dismay that a portion of the mob had made along the High Street and were waiting for us on the steep ascent where the wynd runs into the street.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
It was with a view to this last—at that time very delicate—affair that he was lodged by Mr. K—— in the same wynd, and at last in the same building, with the dissecting-rooms.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
So ffeyre a wynd had the knyght, A litull̴ be-ffore the mydnyght 1420 He Rode be a foreste.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
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