different between wintle vs windle

English

Etymology

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen (“to reel”); compare wentelen.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt?l

Verb

wintle (third-person singular simple present wintles, present participle wintling, simple past and past participle wintled)

1. (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
   • c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,

     The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.

   • 1974, Austin Clarke, quoted in 1981, G. Craig Tapping, Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings, page 282,

     Along the cliffs a breeze wintled.

2. (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
3. (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
   • 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, 2011, page 214,

     At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!

4. (Scotland) To wriggle.
   • 2002, Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey, US, page 222,

     Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.

Derived terms

• wintler

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Wintel

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