Talk:Winding hole
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Old English was in use up to and including the 18th century
Really? Is that actually in the cited source? Seems about seven centuries too late. 206.208.104.20 (talk) 17:40, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Pronunciation[edit]
A 'wine-ding' hole is where you TURN a boat around. It is related to the word 'turn' whether turning a key to wind a clock or turning the wheels of a vehicle to navigate a winding road. This is what I believed and it's confirmed by the OED. The concept of using the wind to turn a boat around is pretty much nonsense - unless someone can explain how that's supposed to work in all cases !