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wink | wink at | winker | winking | winkingly | winkle | winkle out | winkle-hawk | winless | winnard 2 | winnebago

winkle

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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win=kle

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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