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- English Word Winding Definition A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
- English Word Winding Definition 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.
- English Word Windingly Definition In a winding manner.
- English Word Windlace Definition See Windlass.
- English Word Windlass Definition A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
- English Word Windlass Definition To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
- English Word Windlass Definition A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
- English Word Windlass Definition An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
- English Word Windlass Definition To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
- English Word Windle Definition A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
- English Word Windle Definition The redwing.
- English Word Windless Definition Having no wind; calm.
- English Word Windless Definition Wanting wind; out of breath.
- English Word Windlestrae Definition Alt. of Windlestraw
- English Word Windlestraw Definition A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
- English Word Windmill Definition A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
- English Word Windore Definition A window.
- English Word Window Definition An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
- English Word Window Definition The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- English Word Window Definition A figure formed of lines crossing each other.