different between windle vs winkle

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

Wikispecies

Etymology

Short for periwinkle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Noun

winkle (plural winkles)

1. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
   • 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, a Description of the Body of Man, London: William Jaggard, Book 8, Chapter 25, p. 610,^[1]

     […] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 1, p. 64,^[2]

     Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea.

   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 25, p. 181,^[3]

     Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out.

   • 2001, Ian McEwen, Atonement, Toronto: Vintage Canada, Chapter 13,^[4]

     Briony was on her knees, trying to put her arms round Lola and gather her to her, but the body was bony and unyielding, wrapped tight about itself like a seashell. A winkle.

2. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:winkle.
3. (children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.

Derived terms

• winkle-picker

Synonyms

• (Littorinidae): oyster drill
• (Busycon and Busycotypus spp.): Fulgar carica, Busycon canaliculata
• (childish: the penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

Translations

Verb

winkle (third-person singular simple present winkles, present participle winkling, simple past and past participle winkled)

1. To extract.

See also

• winkle out

Anagrams

• Wilken, welkin