Windle

Quick meaning: Windle is a noun meaning (UK, dialect) The redwing.

Meaning

(UK, dialect) The redwing.

More Meanings

1. (now dialectal) A basket.
2. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
3. Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
4. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
5. A windlass.
6. A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
7. (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.

Example Sentences

Windles. Plantago lanceolata, L.—A general name for the dry stalks of many grasses and several other pasture plants.

There are many locally distinctive names for landscape features: 'ball' for a rounded hillside spur such as Wimbleball, which means the ball where windle grass grows […]

Some of them saw nothing more but some windle straws (larsar lena) blowing round the floor, but she I spoke to saw distinctly troops of fairies riding round on horses no bigger than small birds.

A car-brake shalt provided with a tapering windle connected at its largest portion with a brake-chain which is thickest at the end nearest the windle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Word Forms

• windles
• windling
• windled

Related Words

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