windle English

Meaning windle meaning

What does windle mean?

windle noun

— (UK, dialect) The redwing.

windle noun

— An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.

— 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.).

— A windlass

— A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.

windle verb

— (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.