name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
windle
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/ˈwɪndəl/
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CMU ARPABET: W IH1 N D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The redwing.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 3
A basket.
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Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 4
An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
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noun
Meaning 5
Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
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noun
Meaning 6
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.
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noun
Meaning 7
Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
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noun
Meaning 8
A windlass.
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noun
Meaning 9
A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
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verb
Meaning 10
To bind straw into bundles.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To wind yarn.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.
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Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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History
Etymology
Perhaps from wind.
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”).
From Middle English windel, shortened from Old English windelstrēaw (“windlestraw, coarse grass or reed”).
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”).