Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 whinder. [Origin unknown. Cf. WINDLE v.3]
1. intr. To wither; to pine or waste away.
1600. Holland, Livy, II. xxiii. 58. Until at length his bodie also began to winder away in a consumption. Ibid. (1601), Pliny, VII. ii. I. 155.
† 2. trans. To crash into fragments. Obs.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. 154. By the fall of a towre [he] was crushed and whindred to death [orig. conpressus & comminutus].
