bewend

verb

bewend

verb

Etymology From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwandijan, from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną. By surface analysis, be- + wend.

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Dialectal To turn; turn around.

  • Glowing under day's warm sunning, Sparkling with thy ripples' running, Taking to thee brooks and rills, Valley-draining, dell-bewending, Water-taking, water- sending, Down to dairy farms and mills, [...]1971, William Barnes, One hundred poems - Page 62:
  • In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going.2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?:

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