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单词 wynd
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wyndn.

Brit. /wʌɪnd/, U.S. /waɪnd/, Scottish English /wʌind/
Forms: Also Middle English, 1700s wynde (1500s vynd, wyne, 1800s northern dialect wynnd), Middle English winde, 1700s–1800s wind (1800s weind).
Etymology: Apparently < the stem of wind v.1 (compare Old English gewind winding ascent, spiral, etc.); the long vowel indicates an Old English disyllabic form *winde or *wynde.
Chiefly Scottish (and northern dialect).
A narrow street or passage turning off from a main thoroughfare; a narrow cross-street; a lane or alley:
a. In Scotland (and northern England).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > between buildings
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alley1360
entryc1405
wyndc1425
vennel1435
trance1545
row1599
ginnel1669
ruelle1679
gangway1785
pend close1819
ope1825
jitty1836
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c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvii. 4490 Þai til Edynburgh helde þe way, And at þe Freyr Wynde enteryt þai.
1439 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 64 The comon venale callit Sanct Leonardis wynde.
1506 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 617/1 Le Nudryis Vynd infra burgum de Edinburgh.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 174 Seing a possest persone with the deuil..rinn throuch gaites, houses, close, wynes, straits and streits frilie.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 336 Bonnetts maid in Leith wynd.
1695 R. Sibbald Autobiogr. (1834) 127 A house neer to the head of Blackfriers Wynd.
1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. iii. 30 Those Side Lanes which they call Wynds.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. ii. 22 Being in my Retreat to pass through a long narrow Wynde or Alley,..a Guide was assigned me.
1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. 165 Many narrow lanes, leading..down the sides of the hills; which lanes, from their being generally winding,..are called winds.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 47 A sma' house at the fit of ane of the wynds.
1860 J. B. Burke Viciss. Families 2nd Ser. 153 The site of Appleby is exceedingly beautiful... From this main street are narrow lanes, called weinds, jutting out towards the river Eden.
1886 D. Masson Edinb. Sketches (1892) 11 A multiplicity of narrow foot-passages called closes, with a few wider and more street-like cuttings called wynds.
b. Applied to similar lanes, etc., in other parts.
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1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 255 Black-teethed women..rush down the wynds and passages [in Yeddo] which lead to the great thoroughfare.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 51 Fresh from the cities of the Old World, and the short and stunted figures..which crowd our alleys and back wynds.
1894 S. J. Weyman Man in Black viii. 168 The priest passed unharmed through the lowest wynds of Paris.
c. Without article.
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1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair vi. xxi. 138 From lane and wynd the sounds of gladness peal.
1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell 145 That cry..rung through street, and pealed through wynd.
d. transferred.
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1952 D. Thomas Coll. Poems 170 Small fishes glide Through wynds and shells of drowned Ship towns to pastures of otters.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
wynd house n.
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1888 J. M. Barrie When Man's Single i The windows of the wynd houses.
C2.
wynd head n. the higher end of a narrow street.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > end of lane or alley
wynd head1665
lane-end1898
1530 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 34 Fra the Wyndheid of Glasgw to the Grayfreris.
1665 J. Nicoll Diary (1836) 443 [He] errectit ane staige betwixt Niddries and Black Friers wynd head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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