Definition of "wynds" [wynds]

• Plural form of wynd. (noun)

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• "There were some streets in Edinburgh called wynds, and it was in one of these, the College Wynd, that Sir Walter Scott was born in the year"
• "At ground level, a network of alleys or "wynds" led off the main Royal Mile."
• "He seized the place with a sense of opportunity leaping sharp and conscious out of early years in the grey "wynds" of a northern Scottish town; and its personality sustained him, very privately but none the less effectively, through the worry and expense of it for years."