windle

Meanings

1. The redwing.

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

1. Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
2. Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata.
3. Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).

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

1. To bind straw into bundles.
2. To wind yarn.
3. To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.

1. A surname.

Etymology

Perhaps from wind.