Also winkle. [Du.] A store or general shop in South Africa. Hence Winkler, a store-keeper.
1839. W. C. Harris, Wild Sports S. Afr., xxxvii. 332. We lost not a moment in opening a winkel, or shop.
1853. W. R. King, Campaign. Kaffirland, vi. 139. ‘Winkel waggons’ had come out to the camp, and the ‘winklers,’ or private traders, sold everything they had.
1902. Blackw. Mag., Feb., 169/1. Richmond Road is not a township…. It boasts of one winkel adjoining the railway buildings.
