wintle

Etymology
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of 🇨🇬; compare.

Verb

 * 1)  To wind, to reel.
 * 2) * c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,
 * The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
 * 1) * 1974, Austin Clarke, quoted in 1981, G. Craig Tapping, Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings, page 282,
 * Along the cliffs a breeze wintled.
 * 1)  To stagger, to sway or rock.
 * 2)  To tumble, to capsize.
 * 3)  To wriggle.
 * 1)  To wriggle.

Derived terms

 * wintler