Ge-wind

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-wind

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wind
Substitute:-- I. what has a curved or spiral shape. (1) a winding ascent. Cf. windan; I. 2 and 3:--Gewind circuitus ascensus, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 4. Gewend coclea (cf. coclea, ascensus, quia circuit), Corp. Gl. H. 34, 623. (2) a tendril of a vine. Cf. windan; II. 4:--Wíngearda gewind capreoli (cf. capreoli vel cincinni wíngearda hócas þe hí mid bindað þæt him néhst bið, 38, 59), Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 10. II. what is woven. Cf. windan; II. 3, windung:--Mid gewefenum wǽfelsa, gewynde consuta (palmarum) plecta, i. cratere, An. Ox. 2392. Gewinde, 2, 79. Gewind plectas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 71. III. what winds round or envelops (as in winding-sheet):--Gewynd involucrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 41, 25.

Related words: loc-, þearm-gewind. ge-wind

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