3. (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of
breath. (b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To wind a ship (Naut.),
to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
Wind
(Wind) v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.]
[imp. & p. p. Wound R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to
sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . .
Wind the shrill horn.
Pope.
That blast was winded by the king.
Sir W. Scott.