windle

Meaning

1. The redwing.
2. A basket.
3. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
4. Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
5. Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata.
6. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
7. A windlass.
8. A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
9. To bind straw into bundles.
10. To wind yarn.
11. To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.
12. A surname.

Etymology / origin

Perhaps from wind.

Related words

Descendant words

• ahauendu(Umbrian) (cog)

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