1 gen 1657 anni - windle

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An appliance for winding yarn or thread. <i>c</i>.1504 <i>j garyn-wyndyll foytt and the blaytters viijd</i>, York (SS53/1193); 1577 <i>a paire of yearen windle blades</i>, North Frodingham (YAJ36/450); 1591 <i>a yarne windle foote</i>, South Cave (Kaner161); 1657 <i>j pare of yearne windles</i>, Selby (YRS47/48). A by-name, similar to spinster in meaning, suggests that the word has a much longer history: 1275 <i>Thomas Wyndelester ... non venit,</i> Hipperholme (YRS29/35). See garn.

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