Definition of "windle" in English

noun

1. (UK, dialect) The redwing.

noun

1. (now dialectal) A basket.

2. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.

noun

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

2. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).

noun

1. A windlass.

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

verb

1. (transitive) To bind straw into bundles.

2. (transitive, dialectal) To wind yarn.

3. (intransitive, dialectal) To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.