wintles

Verb

wintle (third-person singular simple present wintles, present participle wintling, simple past and past participle wintled)

1. (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
   • The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.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
2. (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
3. (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
   • At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, published 2011, page 214
4. (Scotland) To wriggle.
   • Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.2002, Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey, US, page 222

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