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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'windle' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions windle noun (plural windles) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch. (Zoí¶l.) The redwing. Prov. Eng. An old English measure of corn, half a bushel. Quotations 1882: 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. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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