winding
/ˈwɪndɪŋ/ noun C2- The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
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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.
On the bed, at full length, and faintly illuminated by the pale light that came from the window, lay a sack of canvas, and under its rude folds was stretched a long and stiffened form; it was Faria’s last winding-sheet,—a winding-sheet which, as the turnkey said, cost so little.
Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.
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