windlen.1
/ˈwɪnd(ə)l/ Now dialect or local.
1. A basket. Now only dialect (see quot. 1879): apparently associated or confused with windle n.2
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]
teanela700
windlec725
spertc975
kipec1000
leapc1000
willyc1000
basketa1300
coopa1300
hoppera1300
ripc1300
skepc1340
coffinc1380
criba1387
skippetc1450
corfc1483
wisket1542
prickle1543
cleave1577
serpet1615
wicker1646
bascaud1647
shapeta1657
fender1682
canister1697
kist1724
calathus1753
voider1788
wick1802
skip1816
maeshie1822
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) C 10 Cartellus, windil.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xl. 16 Ic geseah swefn, þæt is, ðæt ic hæfde ðry windlas mid melewe ofer min heafod.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 17973 Thei did brynge the kiddis drye..And colis also In bollis & wyndel.
1879 Norfolk Archæol. VIII. 174 Windle, a basket used in winnowing corn.
2. A measure of corn and other commodities, varying in different localities; of wheat, usually about 3 bushels. local (northern).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bushel > three bushels
windle1282
1268 , 1282 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) I. xviii. 428 [Nuts] are purchased in Cumberland by the windle.]
1282 Inquisition Post Mortem (P.R.O.: C 133/31/3) m. 1 Et sciendum quod quelibet eskeppa continet sexdecim Windell. & illi sexdecim Windelli faciunt quarterium Lond. & dimidium.
1309 in Court Rolls Wakefield (1906) II. 194 One wynd[el ?] of barley and a quarter of oats.
1521 Pleadings Duchy Lancaster (1896) 106 [Dealing of corn by] mettes and wyndilles.
1525 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 216 To everichon of the same Orders a wyndle of wheate, or the price therof.
1566 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 86 One wyndle containing 56 quarts of wine measure up heaped shall..be the right and just standard.
1636 in S. M. Ffarington Farington Papers (1856) 13 8 windles of wheat Lancr measure.
1729 P. Walkden Diary 30 Oct. (1866) (modernized text) 62 Spent the day wholly at home in winnowing my barley, and I measured a windle and an awkendale for going to the malt-kilns.
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Windle, or Winnel, a bushel.
1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 18 The cost [of limestone] at the kiln is 11 d a windle, and two windles are equal to 3 cwt.
1881 Daily News 17 Jan. 3/4 Preston. Jan. 15... Wheat 19 s. to 22 s. per windle.
3. A bundle or band (of straw or hay). Scottish.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw
feald?14..
bottlec1405
bunch?a1505
straw wisp?a1513
stook1571
wad1573
botillage1576
windling1645
pottle1730
bolting1784
strike1817
windle1825
wap1828
hay-pack1841
wake1847
plack1871
tibbin1900
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Winnle, the same with Windlen, a bottle of straw.
1905 W. R. Mackintosh Around Orkney Peat-fires (ed. 2) 207 [He] had the kegs tied up in windles of straw.
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† windlen.2
Obsolete.
A winnowing-fan.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket
fana800
windlec1175
weight1354
winnowing-cloth1375
winnow-sheetc1394
winnow-cloth1404
vanc1450
wind-cloth1500
wimsheet1532
winding-cloth1548
shaul1553
winnow1580
wan?1615
sail-fan1707
wind-screen1763
wind-sheet1891
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10483 Himm shollde brinngenn inn hiss hannd. Hiss winndell forr to winndwenn.
a1400 N.T. (Paues) Matt. iii. 12 Whos wyndel is in his honde, & he schal clense fully his korne.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/7 Hoc uentilabrum, wyndylle.
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle vii. sig. Dvij Whan the corne is threshed, the kernell lyeth myxed amonge the chaf, and afterwarde are they dysseuered a sonder wyth the fanne or wyndle.
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windlen.3
/ˈwɪnd(ə)l/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
An appliance for winding yarn or thread.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > equipment for
yarn-winder14..
windle1677
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Lll3/2 Windle, yarn-blade, un devidoir.
17.. Loving Lass in Ramsay's Tea-t. Misc. (1762) 172 My hanks of yarn, my rock and reel, My winnels and my spinning-wheel.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 203 Jennock tum't the winles' blade An' waft in lapfu's left her.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. ii. 9 From a windle the thread is conducted to the quills.
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windlen.4
local.
The redwing ( Turdus iliacus), also called wind-thrush, -throstle.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus iliacus (redwing)
wing-thrush1544
swinepipe1649
redwing1668
windle1677
winnarda1698
wind-thrusha1705
redwing fieldfare1767
redwing thrush1768
wind-throstle1826
pop1848
whin-thrush1848
Swedish nightingale1879
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) iii. 63 The Wind-throstle, (or Whindle).
a1698 C. Morton Enquiry in Harleian Misc. (1810) V. 499 The..wind-thrush (or the redwing, wheenerd, whindle; for so many names it has in divers countries).
1772 J. Rutty Ess. Nat. Hist. Dublin I. 342.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 5 Redwing.., Winnard (Cornwall). Windle (Devon).
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windlev.1
Now dialect.
1. intransitive. To move circularly or sinuously; to turn over and over, or round and round; to whirl; to meander: = wind v.1 7b.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll
trenda1000
trendlea1225
rollc1405
overwhelma1425
windle1487
trill1531
volve1568
troll1581
tirl1824
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > move in a circle or curve [verb (intransitive)] > move in a circle > go round in circles
windle1623
squirrel1921
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 721 Sum dede dosnyt sum dede vyndland [1489 Adv. wynland].
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. p. xxviii The one hoodwinked with his implicite faith, as with a bumble on his head, thinkes he goes forth~right, when he windles in a mill.
1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. (Lincolnsh.) The snow windles under the tiles.
2. transitive. To wind (thread, etc.); also absol.: = wind v.1 15. Also Scottish (see quot. 1808, and cf. windle n.1 3, windling n.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [verb (transitive)] > wind
windle1587
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into sheaves or bundles
sheaf1506
sheave1579
bottle1611
swathe1611
wad1677
gripa1722
tipple1799
tuffle1799
windle1808
1587 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 117/132 Than did I spye Chrysippus..with a large and brodest roll his threid & webbs to windill.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 1 These flocks as white as milke, That make, and spinne, and die, and windle silke.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Windle, to make up (straw or hay) into bottles.
1859 A. Whitehead Legends of Westmorland 14 (E.D.D.) The sarvant lasses they'd begun To winnle, wind, and spin.
Derivatives
ˈwindling n. and adj.1
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1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville iv. (1826) 140 Beside some windling brook.
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 730 Windling, snow-drifting.
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† windlev.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To winnow.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > winnow
fanc1000
van1340
winnow1382
windle14..
wim1455
wimble1553
ventilate1609
dight?1611
eventilate1623
wind1786
wecht1804
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 696/23 Hoc ventilabrum, a wyndyllynge. [The English gloss appears to be incomplete.]
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle vii. sig. Dvij When they are faimed or wyndled, and when the wynde of trouble and affliccyon begynneth ones a lytle to blowe.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Winnel-claith, v. Windin-claith.
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windlev.3
Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To lose strength or vigour; to wither, waste away, dwindle.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > become weak [verb (intransitive)]
woke993
unstrengea1225
feeble?c1225
windlec1325
enfeeblish1382
weaken?1541
spindle1863
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > lose freshness
wallowc888
falloweOE
fordwinec1000
foryellowc1220
fade13..
windlec1325
wanzec1400
witherc1400
unappair1426
quail?c1430
withera1500
quell1579
tainta1616
daver1621
welter1645
tarnish1678
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > wither [verb (intransitive)]
falloweOE
welka1300
starvec1400
witherc1400
dote?1440
wizena1450
mortifyc1475
vade1492
shrinkc1572
flitter1577
windle1579
shirpc1639
welter1645
welt1854
sickly1882
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 161 Jo ay la mayn si estomye [gloss so acomeled, v.r. wineled].
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 31v The fruite thereof for want of moysture begynneth to windell.
1620 T. Gataker Davids Instructer 6 Tender plants..are in danger else to windle and wither away.
Derivatives
windling adj.2
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1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Windle, v. to dwindle... Windling, adj., feeble, delicate.
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