dwindling

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Full of wonder and delight, she lifted the windling out of its nest, and laid it in her bosom.

From The Blue Moon by Housman, Laurence

At 8 o'clock a "windling" of meadow hay is given to each pair of cows, the quantity being always regulated according to the requirements of each cow.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

"Gae hame, gae hame, my mither deir, Fetch me my windling sheet,50 And at the back o' Mirry-land toun, Its thair we twa sall meet."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

The maid was a poor windling thing, and, though a playward piece o’ flesh when he married her, ’a socked and sighed, and went out like a snoff! 

From Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas