Winkle may refer to:

Snails

* Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America * Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails * Some edible species of

nerite Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritininae Poey, 1852. Accessed through: ...

s which are also small aquatic snails, some marine, some freshwater * Sometimes applied to certain land species that have an operculum, such as '' Pomatias elegans'', the land winkle * Tegula pfeifferi

Places

* Winkle, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community *

East Danville, Ohio East Danville (also known as Winkle) is an unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population ...

, United States, an unincorporated community also known as Winkle * Winkle Island (disambiguation), several places with the name

Other uses

* nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919–2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot * Leslie Winkle, a character in the television series ''The Big Bang Theory'' * Nathaniel Winkle, a character in the novel '' The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens *

Winkle squeeze A winkle squeeze is a rare squeeze/endplay in contract bridge in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed. Often one defender would be forced to offer a finesse or ruff and discard while the other co ...

, a play in the card game of contract bridge * Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector

Snails

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