Van Hoother was to git the wind up

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van (here changed back from von)

to git: to get

wind → wind for Grace O’Malley’s ship? → Ulysses, "Aeolus"

git the wind up → cf. FW 009.09

wind-up: (1) the close, finish; (2) a joke, prank
- JvH is be the joke of the town / to understand the joke

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