sb. Forms: 3–4 wynelynge, 5 wenelyng(e; 7 winling, 8 windlen, wonlyne, 9 winlin, windlin, windling. [? f. WIND v.1 + -LING1 2. But perhaps two distinct words.

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  The word in sense 1 seems to be synonymous with wyn(e)wes, wynwys in 1304 Acc. Exch. K. R. 12/6. m. 3, 1336 Ibid. 19/31 m. 5, 1420 For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI., G/2.]

2

  † 1.  collect. sing. or pl. ? Small ropes or cords. Obs.

3

1295.  Acc. Exch. K. R., 5/7 m. 1 (P.R.O.). In Wynelyngges emptis ad nauem ix. s. v. d.

4

1356.  in Pipe Roll 32 Edw. III., m. 33/1 (P.R.O.). In CCC. lb. de towe, vjxx fassibus straminis, xviij Millibus de Wynelynge emptis.

5

1402.  Acc. Exch. K. R., 43/6 m. 4. In iiijxx petris de Wenelyng … in factura dicte balengere expenditis. Ibid. (1407), 44/11 (1) m. 2. In iij. libris de Wenelynge emptis … iij. d.

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  2.  A bundle of straw or hay. Sc.

7

1645.  in J. Davidson, Inverurie (1878), 206. Twa winlingis of stray.

8

1737.  Ramsay, Sc. Prov. (1750), 41. He stumbles at a strae and lowps o’er a wonlyne.

9

1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 125. The cattle-man resumes his labours by bunching up windlings of straw, which are small bundles having a twisted form, of 10 lb. weight, or more each.

10

1845.  New Statist. Acc. Scot., XV. Caithness, 146. The tenants of each penny-land … had … to furnish a certain number of winlins to thatch the mains’ stacks.

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1862.  Hislop, Prov. Scot., 88. He starts at straes, and lets windlins gae.

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  Windling ppl. a.: see WINDLE v.1 and v.3

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