different between dindle vs windle

English

Alternative forms

• dinnle, dinle

Etymology

From Middle English dyndelen (“to tinkle; tingle; tremble”), perhaps equivalent to din +? -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots dinnle (“to shake; tremble; to cause to shake or tremble”), Old Scots dyndill (“to cause to resound or vibrate”). Compare dandle, din.

Verb

dindle (third-person singular simple present dindles, present participle dindling, simple past and past participle dindled)

1. To tingle, as from cold; quiver; thrill
2. (Britain, intransitive) to shake; vibrate; tremor

Related terms

• dunner

Noun

dindle (plural dindles)

1. A tingle; a thrill.

Anagrams

• lidden

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?nd?l/

Etymology 1

Perhaps from wind.

Noun

windle (plural windles)

1. (Britain, dialect) The redwing.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English windle, windel, from Old English windel (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *windilaz (“wrap; diaper; plaitwork; basket”), equivalent to wind +? -le. Related to Old English windan (“to wind, twist”).

Noun

windle (plural windles)

1. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.

     In the Derby household book of 1561, wheat, malt, and oats are sold by the quarter and the windle, in which the quarter clearly contained sixteen windles, and must have been a wholly different measure from that which we are familiar.
2. Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field
   1. Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
3. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
4. A windlass
5. A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.

Verb

windle (third-person singular simple present windles, present participle windling, simple past and past participle windled)

1. (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.

References

• windle at OneLook Dictionary Search
• windle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• wilden