Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
WINDLE
Etymology 1
Noun
windle (plural windles)
(UK, dialect) The redwing.
Etymology 2
Noun
windle (plural windles)
An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field
Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata
Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
A windlass
A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
Verb
windle (third-person singular simple present windles, present participle windling, simple past and past participle windled)
(transitive) To bind straw into bundles.
Anagrams
• wilden
Proper noun
Windle (plural Windles)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Windle is the 10515th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3051 individuals. Windle is most common among White (92.99%) individuals.
Anagrams
• wilden
Source: Wiktionary
Win"dle, n. Etym: [From Wind to turn.]
1. A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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