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354. windling (wind'ling), n. [ mül, G. windmühle; tor for utilizing the pres sure of the wind as a mo tive power. Two types of machines are used, the horizontal and the vertical. The vertical motor consists e entially of a horizontal shaft called the wind - shaft , with a combination of sails or vanes fixed at the end of the shaft, and suitable gearing for conveying the motion of the wind-shaft to the pump or other machinery. The older types of windmill used four vanes or sail-frames called whips , covered with canvas, arrangements being provided for reefing the sails in high winds. To present the vanes to the wind, the whole structure or tower carrying the windmill was at first turned round by means of a long lever. Later the top of the tower, called the cap , was made IMG:content-2416.jpg:[blocks in formation] The stern line began to draw, and the sloop was wind la ed clear of the stone pile and saved. The Century , XXXIX. 226. windle (win'dl), n. [ windel , as in comp. zarn- windel , a wheel on which yarn is wound, windel (= MD. windel , a wheel, pulley, roll, cradle, = MLG. windle , a roll, etc.), wind1 , and cf. windla 1.] 1. An implement or engine for turning or winding: used in different senses locally. To force the water windles up to the top of the hill. with devise of engines and Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxvi. 15. Speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn- windles . Scott , Pirate, v. From a windle the thread is conducted to the quills. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 2. 2. The wind thrush or redwing, Turdus iliacus . See cut 2 under thrush1. [Devons hire, Eng.] -3. A dry measure, equal to about 34 Win- chester bushels. The official returns for 1879 showed that it was not then entirely obsolete. It is there stated as 220/583 imperial bushels of wheat, 180/50 bushels of barley, or 220/62.857 bushels of beans. 80 wyndels of barley £40. IMG:content-2417.jpg:[blocks in formation] A windle sea under the moon of midnight. Ruskin . A windle , cloudle even. William Morris , Sigurd, iii. 2. Wanting wind; out of breath. Binding his hands and knitting a handkercher about his eyes, that he should not see, and when they had made him sure and fast, then they laid him on until they were windle . Harman , Caveat for Cursetors, p. 96. windles set, n. An obsolete form of windla 1 . windlestraw (win'dl-str a), n. [Also Sc. win dlestræ ; windelstreów , straw for plaiting, windel , a woven basket, etc., + streów , etc., straw: see windle and straw1 .] 1. The old stalk of various gra es, as the tufted hair-gra , Des champs i a ( Aira ) cæspitosa , the dog's-tail, Cyno sur us cristatus , or Apera ( Agrostis ) Spica - vent i . Tall spires of windlestrae Threw their thin shadows down the rugged slope. Shelley, Alastor. 2. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea : same as jackstraw , 5. [Local, Eng.] wind lift (wind lift), n. [A perversion of wind la , windle e , the second element being made to simulate lift2 .] A windla . IMG:content-2418.png:[blocks in formation] made with many wooden a, frame; b, sails; c, vane; 4, vanes forming a disk exposed pump-rod. to the winds, and fitted with automatic feathering and steering machinery, governors for regulating the speed, apparatus for closing the vanes in storms, etc. These improved windmills are chiefly of American invention, and are largely used in all parts of IMG:content-2419.jpg:[graphic] Old Windmill at Bridge hampton, New York. the United States for pumping water. Horizontal windmills employ an upright wind-shaft, and movable vanes placed in a circle round it, the vanes feathering when moving against the wind. I saugh him carien a wind - melle Under a walshe-note shale. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1280. 2. A visionary scheme; a vain project; a fancy; a chimera. He lived and died with general councils in his pate, with windmills of union to concord Rome and England, England and Rome, Germany with them both.