wind noun- wind ☞ “Ah’m heard the wind blowan afore” “I don’t believe you will do what you say you will”
- air ☞ “I must pit some wind in me tyres”
- wind bird • wind cuffer kestrel (from its habit of hovering in the air when searching for prey)
- wind-blether sea-shell
- wind-feeder shower which brings with it an increase in the wind’s strength
- windrift ruin or destruction ☞ “Hid’s aa gin tae windrift”
- wind-skew board with a long stick attached to it, used to change the draught in the open central flue • of the Old Orkney house
- windthrush redwing
- windy call by schoolboys when a player of the opposite team kicks a ball out of play, sarcastically suggesting that the breach has been caused by the wind
- windy-whistle acute pain in the front tee
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