An archaic or dialectal past tense form of 'wound,' meaning to wind or coil something.
An older or dialectal form of the past tense of 'wind/wound.' The 'e-' prefix suggests archaic or Scottish English influence, where prefixes were more commonly used.
This word illustrates how English's irregular verbs (like wind/wound/wound) have many regional variations and how the language was far more flexible in the past—modern standardization has ironed out most of these alternatives.
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