different between windle vs widdle

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?d?l/
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

widdle (countable and uncountable, plural widdles)

1. (childish, chiefly Britain) Urine.
2. (childish, chiefly Britain) An act of urination.

Synonyms

• (urine): piddle, see also Thesaurus:urine
• (urination): piddle, see also Thesaurus:urination

Verb

widdle (third-person singular simple present widdles, present participle widdling, simple past and past participle widdled)

1. (childish, chiefly Britain) To urinate.
2. (colloquial) To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly.

Synonyms

• piddle, see also Thesaurus:urinate

Derived terms

• widdler
• widdly

Translations

Adjective

widdle (comparative widdler, superlative widdlest)

1. (childish, chiefly US) Little.

Synonyms

• ickle (UK)

See also

• whittle similar sounding term, but not quite homophonic in most varieties of English

Anagrams

• wilded