Windle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The redwing.
2. isim A basket.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.

   “We rode by the side of a barren mountain, which was covered to an extent of three miles with quartz, and produced little or no herbage, except a species of wiry or windle-grass, which was much parched by the sun.”

5. isim Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata.

   “That he has given a fair character of the Crested dog's tail, I have proved by repeated experiments; in the North of Ireland, we know its panicles but two well, under the name of windle straws.”

6. isim Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
7. isim A windlass.

   “A car-brake shalt provided with a tapering windle connected at its largest portion with a brake-chain which is thickest at the end nearest the windle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.”

8. isim A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.

   “She comes—she comes—God's sake speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn-windles.”

9. fiil To bind straw into bundles.
10. fiil To wind yarn.
11. fiil To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.
12. özel isim A surname.