Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rolling or reeling motion; a stagger. Also, erroneously, whintle.
- To twist; writhe; roll; reel; stagger.
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- verb Scotland to
reel , tostagger - verb Scotland to
wriggle
Etymologies
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perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen 'to reel'
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Examples
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An 'wintle like a saumont-coble, [stagger, salmon-boat]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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