enwindinwindv.
/ɛnˈwʌɪnd//ɪnˈwʌɪnd/ transitive. To wind itself around (something); to surround as with windings or coils. Also, to make into a coil. literal and figurative.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something)
enlacec1374
whipc1500
wreathe1509
enwrap1578
circumvolute1599
twine1602
ingyre1610
wrap?1611
wire1645
serpenta1660
whirl1676
convolute1698
intertwine1717
entwine1796
overtwinea1817
enwind1849
warplea1870
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 30 The bond Original, deep-inwound, Of blood.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 245 A sound, a sense of music..Softly, finely, it inwound me.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcvi. 146 Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmark'd of me. View more context for this quotation
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 256 The moony vapour rolling round the king..Enwound him fold by fold.
1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 806 With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound.
Derivatives
enˈwinding n.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > forming coils
folding1561
wristling1577
enwinding1598
coiling1769
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Falde..a folding, an inwinding or a plaiting of a garment.
1697 View Penal Laws 257 Neither he or any other shall make any Inwinding within the Fleece.
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