windle

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwɪndəl/ Rhymes: -ɪndəl === Etymology 1 === Perhaps from wind. ==== Noun ==== windle (plural windles) (UK, dialect) The redwing. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English windle, windel, from Old English windel (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *windil, from Proto-Germanic *windilaz (“wrap; diaper; plaitwork; basket”), equivalent to wind +‎ -le. Related to Old English windan (“to wind, twist”). ==== Noun ==== windle (plural windles) (now dialectal) A basket. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel. === Etymology 3 === From Middle English windel, shortened from Old English windelstrēaw (“windlestraw, coarse grass or reed”). ==== Noun ==== windle (plural windles) Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field. Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.). === Etymology 4 === From Middle English windel, from Old Norse vindla (“to wind up”) or Middle Dutch windelen (“to turn around, spin”). Related to Old English windelstān (“tower with a winding staircase”), bewindla (“a hedge or border”), hringġewindla (“a sphere”). ==== Noun ==== windle (plural windles) A windlass. 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) (transitive) To bind straw into bundles. (transitive, dialectal) To wind yarn. (intransitive, dialectal) To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift. === References === “windle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “windle”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === wilden == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwind.le/ === Noun === windle dative singular of windel