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Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

Snaky :: Snaky (a.) Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake; serpentine; winding.

Kink :: Kink (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord..

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,

Boyau :: Boyau (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc..

Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

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

Wind :: Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.

Curl :: Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form..

Fake :: Fake (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil..

Strewed :: Stretto (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time..

Moulinet :: Moulinet (n.) A machine formerly used for bending a crossbow by winding it up.

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

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla..

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..

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..

Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures..

Mule :: Mule (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny..

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..

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