▪ I. grindle1 Obs. exc. dial.
A narrow ditch or drain. (Cf. grindlet.)
| 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 31 There is vij acres lond lying by the hih weye toward the grendyll. 1587 Golding De Mornay xiv. (1617) 230 As who would say this present life were vnto it [the future life] but a narrow grindle. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Grindle, a small and narrow drain for water. But Drindle is a better word. 1847 Halliwell, Grindle, a small drain. (Suffolk.) |
▪ II. † grindle2 Obs. rare—1.
Some bird.
| 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey iv. iii. 83 Gray, Greene and Bastard Plover..Grindle, Skirwingle, Sea and Land Larkes. |
▪ III. grindle3 U.S.
(ˈgrɪnd(ə)l)
[a. G. gründel, f. grund ground, bottom.]
A name of the mud-fish (see quot.).
| 1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 97 Amia calva, the bow-fin, mud-fish,..grindle, ‘John A. Grindle’, or lawyer, as it is variously termed. |