Meaning and Origin
What does the name Windle mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Texas, U.S. says the name Windle means "Born on a Windy Hill, or as a habitational name from Windhill".
- A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
- [Zoöl] The redwing.(Prov. Eng)
Etymology: From Wind to turn
Perhaps from wind.
- (Britain, dialect) The redwing.
From Middle English windle, windel, from Old English windel (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *windilaz (“wrap; diaper; plaitwork; basket”), equivalent to wind + -le. Related to Old English windan (“to wind, twist”).
- An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
- 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
- Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
- A windlass
- A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.