plural of wind up

plural of willow ptarmigan

plural of willow grouse

(Australia, US) a river system protected by government legislation requiring it to be kept in its natural state.

Alternative form of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

A low, narrow-leaved evergreen shrub, Cneorum tricoccon, found in southern Europe.

(Internet) A problem in data transmission, where a server, unable to process all incoming data, repeatedly asks the clients to reduce the size of the packets they are sending — to the point where all packets become extremely small ("tinygrams") and transmission becomes inefficient.

(Canada, US, finance, obsolete) A brokerage company with a telegraph line, telephone line, or electronic communication network.

plural of private-wire house

(figuratively, vulgar) To waste time on a pointless or fruitless task; do something that is ineffective or counterproductive.