windle

发音

其它 /ˈwɪndəl/

词形变化

windles 复数 windled windles 三单 windling windling 现在分词 windled 过去式 windled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The redwing.

    英国 方言
  2. 1.

    A basket.

    方言
  3. 2.

    An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.

  4. 1.

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

  5. 2.

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

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

  6. 3.

    Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).

  7. 1.

    A windlass.

  8. 2.

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

v.
  1. 1.

    To bind straw into bundles.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To wind yarn.

    方言 及物
  3. 3.

    To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.

    方言 不及物

词源

Perhaps from wind.

来源:wiktionary