Windle vs Winde - What's the difference?
windle | winde |
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.
Dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata .
Bent grass.
*{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But he that laughed before at his fellow, said againe, Verily this tale is as true, as if a man would say that by sorcery and inchantment the floods might be inforced to run against their course, the seas to be immovable, the aire to lacke the blowing of windes , the Sunne to be restrained from his naturall race, the Moone to purge his skimme upon herbes and trees to serve for sorceries: the starres to be pulled from heaven, the day to be darkened and the dark night to continue still. }}
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As nouns the difference between windle and winde
is that windle is the redwing while winde is obsolete spelling of lang=en.windle
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from wind.Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
winde
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
