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tindle dial.|ˈtɪnd(ə)l|
[app. a deriv. of tind v. to kindle; akin to tandle and tendle, or a var. of the latter.]
In pl., A name given locally to small fires lighted out of doors at the beginning of May and November. (Cf. tandle.)
See fuller quot. in E.D.D., and references to N. & Q. and Glossaries there given.
1784Gentl. Mag. Nov. 836/2 At..Findern, in Derbyshire,..the boys and girls..in the evening of the second of November..light up a number of small fires amongst the furze..and call them..Tindles. 1872C. Hardwick Traditions Lancs. 30 In Derbyshire these fires [on 1st May] were called Tindles, and were kindled at the close of the last century. |