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Wintle vs Windle - What's the difference?

wintle | windle |

As a verb wintle

is to wind, to reel.

As a noun windle is

the redwing.

wintle

English

Verb

(wintl)
  • (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
  • * Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell'', 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), ''The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746 , page 266,
    • The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
  • * 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings , page 282,
    • Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
  • (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
  • (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
  • * 1901 , , 2011, page 214,
    • At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
  • (Scotland) To wriggle.
  • * 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US, page 222,
    • Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.

    Derived terms

    * wintler

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    windle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from wind.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) The redwing.
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    • 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.