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▪ I. winze1 Mining.|wɪnz|
Also 8 winds.
[The earliest recorded spelling suggests derivation from wind n.2]
A shaft or an inclined passage sunk from one level to another, but not rising to the surface.
1757Borlase in Phil. Trans. L. 503 The stage-boards of the little winds or shafts 20 fathoms deep were perceived to move. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 164 The under-ground Shaft or Winds, is worked by hand, with a windlass only. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 244/2 The common windlass..is much used..in sinking winzes. 1871Daily News 22 Sept., The footway winze leading from the 70 to the 80 has been completed. 1889C. G. W. Lock Gold-Mining 283 A winze or an incline, the winze being preferable, is made through the bed-rock to the gravel.
▪ II. winze2 Sc.|wɪnz|
[a. early Flem. wensch ‘imprecatio’ (Kilian): see wish v.]
An imprecation, a curse.
1785Burns Halloween xxiii, He..loot a winze, an' drew a stroke. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 186 Wi' bitter winze and ban.
▪ III. winze3 Cornwall.
Also winz.
Altered f. winch n.1 Also attrib.
1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. xv. 529 The miners were..taken up in a stirrup by two men, who wound the rope, probably over a winze. 1855Leifchild Cornwall 36 Upon this platform was fixed a winz for four men. 1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 7/4 The small kibbles used with the tackle are called ‘winze-kibbles’. |