Windle vs Winkle - What's the difference?
windle | winkle |
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.
A periwinkle or its shell, of family .
Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species .
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* {{quote-book, title=Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island,
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(children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
to extract
As nouns the difference between windle and winkle
is that windle is the redwing while winkle is a periwinkle or its shell, of family family: Littorinidae.As a verb winkle is
to extract.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.