wintle

/ˈwɪntəl/

Etymology

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen (“to reel”); compare wentelen.

wintle means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

name

To wind, to reel.“c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266, The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.”
To stagger, to sway or rock.
To tumble, to capsize.“At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!”
To wriggle.“Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.”