Sentence:  I had fallen down on my knees, with my back to the wind, and already the snow had drifted around me. I also found my eye-lashes frozen together, and I lost several <WSD>winkers</WSD> in getting rid of those solidified tears. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An eyelash.<ref>John Jamieson, "A Dictionary of the Scottish Language", abridged by John Johnstone, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846, p.(nbsp)758.[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscot00jamirich]</ref>