Category:Winding

Wind"ing, n. Etym: [from wind to blow.] (naut.)

Defn: a call by the boatswain's whistle.

Winding Wind"ing, a. Etym: [from wind to twist.]

Defn: twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous. Keble.

Winding Wind"ing, n.

Defn: a turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the Windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove with ringlets quaint, And wanton windings wove. Milton.

Defn: a line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or Bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting Wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator. 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.