windle

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see also: Windle

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɪndəl/

Noun

windle (plural windles)

1. (UK, dialect) The redwing.

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 (windles, present participle windling; past and past participle windled)

1. (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.

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Windle

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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