WINDING
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Wind"ing (?), n. [From Wind to blow.] (Naut.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
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Wind"ing, a. [From Wind to twist.] Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. Keble.
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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.
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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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