bewend

From Middle English bewenden, biwenden, from Old English bewendan (“to turn, turn round; to turn one’s attention, convert”), from Proto-Germanic *biwandijaną (“to turn around”); equivalent to be- +‎ wend.

bewend (third-person singular simple present bewends, present participle bewending, simple past and past participle bewent or bewended)

1. (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.