WIDDERSHINS

Widdershins

Widdershins To go counter-clockwise, to go anti-clockwise, or to go lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left. i.e. literally, it means to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun viewed from the Arctic Circle, . The Oxford English Dictionary's entry cites the earliest uses of the word from 1513, where it was found in the phrase widdersyns start my hair, i.e. my hair stood on end.

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widdershins

Adverb

  1. The wrong way.
  2. Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise.
    It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church.


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