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English
Etymology
From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwandijan, from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną. By surface analysis, be- + wend.
Verb
bewend (third-person singular simple present bewends, present participle bewending, simple past and past participle bewent or bewended)
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To turn; turn around.
1971, William Barnes, One hundred poems - Page 62:Glowing under day's warm sunning, Sparkling with thy ripples' running, Taking to thee brooks and rills, Valley-draining, dell-bewending, Water-taking, water- sending, Down to dairy farms and mills, [...]
2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?:In between modern technics, nearlier spoken the wale-bewended modern logistic outlaying of thinking and speaking, has already set oversetting machines in going.