[1] : 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.
      1913 webster

            to nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove
            with ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
winding engine winding sheet winding tackle 

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