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windling

windling is the present participle and gerund of windle.

Meaning of windle

Verb

windle (third-person singular simple present windles, present participle windling, simple past and past participle windled)

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

See all 12 meanings of windle

Noun

windling (plural windlings)

  1. A bundle of straw bound together.

Forms of windling

pluralwindlings

Questions about windling

What does windling mean?
Windling means a bundle of straw bound together.
What is windling the present participle and gerund of?
Windling is the present participle and gerund of windle.
What part of speech is windling?
Windling is a noun.
What is the plural of windling?
The plural of windling is windlings.

Words near windling in the dictionary

  1. Windley
  2. Windleys
  3. windlike
  4. windline
  5. windlines
  6. windling
  7. windlings
  8. windload
  9. windloads
  10. windmeter
  11. windmeters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windling (page history and authors); windle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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