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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Winding \Wind"ing\, n.
1. A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as,
the windings of a road or stream.
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To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
--Milton.
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2. The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about
anything, or a single round or turn of the material; as
(Elec.), a series winding, or one in which the armature
coil, the field-magnet coil, and the external circuit form
a continuous conductor; a shunt winding, or one of such a
character that the armature current is divided, a portion
of the current being led around the field-magnet coils.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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{Winding engine}, an engine employed in mining to draw up
buckets from a deep pit; a hoisting engine.
{Winding sheet}, a sheet in which a corpse is wound or
wrapped.
{Winding tackle} (Naut.), a tackle consisting of a fixed
triple block, and a double or triple movable block, used
for hoisting heavy articles in or out of a vessel.
--Totten.
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