Wintler vs Wintled - What's the difference?
wintler | wintled |
(wintle)
(Scotland) To wind, to reel.
* 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 ,
* 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings ,
(Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
(Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
* 1901 , , 2011,
(Scotland) To wriggle.
* 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US,
As a noun wintler
is who wintles.As a verb wintled is
past tense of wintle.wintled
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(head)wintle
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(wintl)page 266,
- The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
page 282,
- Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
page 214,
- 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!
page 222,
- Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.