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Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity..

Liquidator :: Liquidator (n.) An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company..

Volubile :: Volubile (a.) Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or,

Knubs :: Knubs (n. pl.) Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..

Sinuation :: Sinuation (n.) A winding or bending in and out.

Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Stench :: Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch..

Tortuose :: Tortuose (a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.

Intorsion :: Intorsion (n.) A winding, bending, or twisting..

Winding :: Winding (n.) 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..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out..

Marl :: Marl (v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding..

Bine :: Bine (n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Insinuate :: Insinuate (v. t.) To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement..

Turn :: Turn (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander..

Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

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