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Winkle

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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win=kle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Winkle has 2 senses

Verb Winkle has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Winklen. [AS. wincle.].
     Any periwinkle.  [1913 Webster]
    " These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking their blood."  [1913 Webster]
Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Winkle, n. & v.
--n. any edible marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Littorina; a periwinkle.
--v.tr. (foll. by out) esp. Brit. extract or eject (winkled the information out of them).

Idiom
winkle-picker sl. a shoe with a long pointed toe.
Derivative
winkler n.
Etymology
abbr. of PERIWINKLE(2): cf. WIG(1)
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