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windle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?nd?l/
Etymology 1
Perhaps from wind.
Noun
windle (plural windles)
- (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)
- 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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.
- Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field
- Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
- Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
- Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
- A windlass
- 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)
- (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
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rindle
English
Noun
rindle (plural rindles)
- A small watercourse or gutter.
References
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co
Anagrams
- Linder, Redlin, Reindl, drelin
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