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Bindle vs Windle - What's the difference?

bindle | windle |

As nouns the difference between bindle and windle

is that bindle is any given length of cord, rope, twine, etc, used to bind something while windle is the redwing.

bindle

English

Etymology 1

,“ ?bindle¹]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 and bundle.

Noun

  • Any given length of cord, rope, twine, etc, used to bind something.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably a corruption of bundle; perhaps influenced by bindle.“ bindle²]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle carried by a hobo (usually containing his possessions), often on a stick slung over the shoulder; a blanket roll.
  • * 2006 (Cormac McCarthy), (The Road):
    • lastly he made a bindle in a plastic tarp of some cans of juice and cans of fruit and cans of vegetables…
  • Any bundle or package; specifically one containing narcotics such as cocaine, heroin, or morphine.
    • Synonyms
    * (bag of possessions) * (bundle containing narcotics) baggie, baggy, deck
    Hypernyms
    * bag, sack
    Derived terms
    * bindlestiff * bindleman

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    windle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from wind.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) The redwing.
  • * '>citation

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208.
    • 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.
  • Dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata .
  • Bent grass.