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Win v.3. World English Historical Dictionary

Win v.3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Win v.3 Sc. and north. dial. Also 6 wyn, 7 wind, 8 winn, (9 won). Pa. pple. 8 winned, Sc. win(n), 6, 9 won, 8 wun. [? WIN v.1 with specialized development from sense 7 f, but associated also with WIND v.2 2.] trans. To dry (hay, seed, turf, wood, etc.) by exposure to the air, or to the heat of the sun or a fire. Also intr. for pass.

1 1557.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 271/2. Tertiam partem 21 dietarum feni lie won hay.

2 1588.  Exch. Rolls Scot., XXI. 412. For making of 36 dawarkis of hay … and for wynning and putting of the samyn in tramp ruckis.

3 1641.  Peebles Burgh Charters (1872), 107. To cast and wind peites, turres, fewall [etc.].

4 1733.  P. Lindsay, Interest Scot., 154. So much of his Lint as he intends for his best Seed, he builds up in a Stack like Corn, after it is thoroughly win.

5 1765.  Museum Rust., IV. cvi. 455. Scots seed, when well winned and kept.

6 1794.  Statist. Acc. Scot., XI. 268. Cutting, winning, and carrying home their peats, however, consumes a great deal of time.

7 1812.  Sir J. Sinclair, Syst. Husb. Scot., I. 396. The sun and air gradually win it [sc. hay].

8 1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 259. Feathers may be hung up in bags against the wall behind the fire, and there they will soon win. Ibid., III. 909. [The skin for rennet] is then hung stretched over a stick near the fire to dry and won. Ibid., 978. By the afternoon the hay is so dry and won as to be fit to be stacked.

9 1884.  Whitby Gaz., 9 Aug., 1/2. A Stack of well won Hay.

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