Obs. rare. [f. as WINDLE sb.2 + -LE 3. Cf. WIMBLE v.2] trans. To winnow.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 696/23. Hoc ventilabrum, a wyndyllynge. [The English gloss appears to be incomplete.]
1550. Coverdale, Spir. Perle, vii. 65. When they are fanned or wyndled, and when the wynde of trouble and afflyccion begynneth once a litle to blowe.
1887. Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., Suppl., Winnel-claith, v. Windin-claith.
