Noun (2)
uttered a bitter winze upon the laird who had cast them off the land
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Noun
In 1968 and 1969, the U.S. Bureau of Mines borrowed the tunnel and tested some blasting and drilling techniques in a gently sloping side channel called a winze.—Madeline Ostrander, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2020
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Etymology
Noun (1)
alteration of earlier winds, probably from plural of wind entry 4
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