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ge-windan

  • verb
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intrans.
of movement,
by living things,
to roll together, roll up
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  • Se iil . . . sóna suá hiene mon geféhð, suá gewint hé tó ánum cliéwene

    ericius . . . mox ut apprehensus fuerit, semetipsum in sphaeram colligit,

      Past. 241, 11.
by inanimate things
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  • Gewand him út eall his innewearde,

      Hml. Th. i. 290, 19.
of action, to go about a matter,
act in reference to
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  • 'Wást þú hú ic gewand ymbe Creosos þearfe, þá þá hine Cirus forbærnan wolde.' Þá hine man on ꝥ fýr wearp, þá álýsde ic hine mid heofonlicon réne,

      Bt. 7, 3; F. 22, 10.
trans.
To roll back, unroll
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  • Wyllene wearp of clíwene gewundene

    lanea stamina ex glomere revoluta,

      An. Ox. 459.
Etymology
[Goth. du-gawindan sik gawaurkjam implicare se negotiis: O. H. Ger. ge-wintan colligere, torquere, volvere.]
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