windle

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A spindle, a kind of reel for winding yarn. See also windles
Dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
The redwing
Bent grass
An old English measure of corn, half a bushel

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.

{n} a spindle, kind of machine, reel
The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch
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