WIND, WINDING
ADJECTIVES
► CRANKY full of twists or windings; crooked → 1836
► CRINGLE-CRANGLE winding in and out, having twists and turns → 1606 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CRINKLE-CRANKLE winding or twisting in and out, zigzag; intricate; convoluted → 1804
► CRINKLY-CRANKLY winding in and out, zigzagging → 1850 colloq.
► GOGLIN winding → 1973 Amer. dial.
► LABYRINTHAL labyrinthine → 1669 rare
► LABYRINTHIAL labyrinthine → a1550 obs.
► LABYRINTHIAN labyrinthine → 1588
► LABYRINTHIC labyrinthine → 1641
► LABYRINTHICAL labyrinthine → 1641 rare
► LABYRINTHINE having many intricate turnings or windings → 1747
► QUAVE zigzag, winding → 1818 Sc. obs.
► RABBLING winding, irregular, zigzag → 19C Eng. dial.
► RANGLING twining, rambling, winding; esp. said of plants → 1863 Eng. dial.
► SINUATED sinuous, winding → 1858
► SINUOSE full of bends or windings; sinuous → 1829
► TIRLIE-WIRLIE ► TIRLY-WIRLY intricate, twisting, winding → 1816 Sc.
► TWISTERING winding, twisting → 1872
► TWISTY-WISTY in a twisting or winding manner → 1892
NOUNS
► CRANK a bend, winding, meandering; a winding or crooked path, course, or channel → 1572
► CRANKLE a bend, twist, winding; a curve or angular prominence → 1596
► CRANKLING twisting or winding in and out → 1596
► CREEK a turn, a winding, as of a river or crooked way → 1596 obs.
► CRINKLE-CRANKLE a winding in and out; a zigzag; sinuosity; intricacy, complexity; convolution → 1598
► CRINKUM-CRANKUM a thing which is full of twists and turns; a winding way; something intricately or fancifully elaborated; a mechanical device or toy; a curio; also, sinuosity; intricateness → 1670
► RANGLE a winding → 1825 Eng. dial.
► RANGLING a winding → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► SINUOSITY the quality of being sinuous or winding in and out → 1598
VERBS
► CRANK to twist and turn about; to move with a sharply winding course, to zigzag → 1594 obs.
► CRANKLE to bend in and out; to wind, to twist; to run zigzag → 1598
► CREEK to bend, to turn, to wind → 1610 obs.
► CRINKLE to make twisting, winding, or crumpled; to wrinkle; to crimp the hair → 1430
► FANKLE to entangle, to twist, to knot; to coil, to wind; to disorder → 1887 Sc.
► RANGLE to entwine, to entangle, to wind about → 1825 Eng. dial.
► SCAMANDER of persons: to wander about, to take devious or winding course → M19 sl.
► SINUATE to creep or crawl in a winding course → 1848
► THRAMLE to wind; to reel → 1804 Sc. obs.
► TWIND to twist, to wind, to turn → 1548 obs.
► UMWRITHE to wind round, to entwine → a1340 obs.
► WINGLE to wind in and out, to wind and twist, to meander → 1913 Amer. dial.
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