Definition of winding

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Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Win.

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Marline :: Marline (v.) A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting..
Boyau :: Boyau (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc..
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up..
Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity..
Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.
Heck :: Heck (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.
Tortuose :: Tortuose (a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.
Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical..
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..
Wind :: Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring..
Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
Stem-winding :: Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.
Snaky :: Snaky (a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.
Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures..
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave..
Woolding :: Woolding (n.) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast..
Insinuating :: Insinuating (a.) Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly..
Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
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,
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