winding
/ˈwaɪndɪŋ/ noun C2- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Something wound around another thing.
- A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
Plural windings
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During the night the undertakers had executed their melancholy office, and wrapped the corpse in the winding-sheet, which, whatever may be said about the equality of death, is at least a last proof of the luxury so pleasing in life.
This winding-sheet was nothing more than a beautiful piece of cambric, which the young girl had bought a fortnight before.
They went over a tolerably large ground floor; a first floor consisted of a salon, a bathroom, and two bedrooms; near one of the bedrooms they came to a winding staircase that led down to the garden.
At the foot of the hill the count dismounted and began to ascend by a little winding path, about eighteen inches wide; when he reached the summit he found himself stopped by a hedge, upon which green fruit had succeeded to red and white flowers.
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