Definition of Widle
Win"dle (?), n. [From Wind to
turn.]
1. A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
2. (Zoöl.) The redwing. [Prov.
Eng.]
Win"dle (?), n. [From Wind to
turn.]
1. A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
2. (Zoöl.) The redwing. [Prov.
Eng.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
- (Zoöl.) The redwing.
- An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
Quotations
*1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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